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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
37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Leedsgate Bridge Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 1993New Leaf Lodge 307 Bourne Road Pode Hole Spalding Lincs PE11 3LW
Received 17 Jan 2002Barling Deer Farm Bardlings Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JN
Received 29 Apr 202423 NORMANTON ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0JJ
Received 5 May 202647 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PW
Received 13 Jan 2025Land at Bridge Road Long Sutton
Received 4 Oct 200630 Hall Lane Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LB
Received 30 Sept 20032 Eastlands Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0JF
Received 12 Mar 2009Croft House 98 Stone Gate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AH
Received 8 Dec 2021Adjacent: Redmay Farm 317 Broadgate Sutton St Edmunds Spalding PE12 0LR
Received 21 Apr 2016Sycamores Gosberton Bank Surfleet
Received 2 Sept 2005Adjacent to Risegate House Hedgefield Hurn Gosberton Spalding PE11 4JE
Received 5 Aug 202669 Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1QF
Received 2 Aug 2013Hightoft House Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4BE
Received 6 Mar 201751 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 7 Apr 2006Willow Tree Farm Spalding Road Holbeach
Received 9 Aug 2001Land off Peterborough Road and Harrington Drive Crowland PE6 0AT
Received 14 Jun 2024BROADGATE HOUSE 696 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6JA
Received 3 Mar 201710 DELAMORE WAY LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DX
Received 16 Jul 202511 Stockhouse Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Aug 2004The Farrier (Rear : 2 Goxhill Avenue) Donington
Received 21 Jul 2004West of Bank House Farm South Eau Bank Throckenholt Spalding PE12 0QW
Received 26 Sept 2018Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 26 May 1999241 West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9QH
Received 13 Mar 1996Records 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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