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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received 23 Dec 2008Bridge House Fishergate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EZ
Received 6 Mar 2017Station Road Gedney Hill
Received 22 Oct 200422 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QG
Received 28 Jan 201167 London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9ED
Received 22 Jul 2016Adjacent Weldon Cross Street Holbeach Spalding
Received 5 Oct 20098 Link Way Spalding Lincs PE11 2ED
Received 12 Dec 2002Daisy Road Holbeach PE12 7HZ
Received 22 Dec 2020SPRINGWAY STOCKWELL GATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UE
Received 25 Feb 2015Corner House Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0PS
Received 3 Dec 2015Gardman Ltd High Street Moulton
Received 29 May 2008Home Farm Little Sutton Spalding
Received 23 Nov 200620 Bacons Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3XS
Received 23 Jan 200673 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Sept 199546 Postland Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JB
Received 21 Nov 2007Link Farm Shop Scoldhall Lane Surfleet Spalding
Received 14 Dec 19985 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6Ah
Received 3 Aug 2005Waters Farm Cockbourn Fen Dike Gedney Fen Spalding PE12 0DQ
Received 15 Jul 2024CHRISTMAS COTTAGE STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DB
Received 11 Apr 2016Former Red Cow Hotel 8 High Street Donington PE11 4TA
Received 5 Apr 2016Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 1994LEON LUTTON GOWTS LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LQ
Received 10 Jan 201850 Fleet Road Fleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 8LA
Received 30 May 20235 Croyland Way Crowland Lincs PE6 0NA
Received 27 Feb 2004Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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