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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
37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pinchbeck Farm Cowards Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3SP
Received 3 Nov 2014THE CREW YARD HOGS GATE MOULTON PE12 6QH
Received 22 Sept 2020The Cottage Marsh Road Holbeach Hurn
Received 13 Jun 200346 CLAY LAKE SPALDING PE11 2QG
Received 5 Sept 201494 London Road Long Sutton
Received 27 Jan 2005116 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Nov 1993Willow Manor 57 Mole Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PA
Received 28 Jul 2009Former Odeon Cinema London Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Oct 1997Eastfield House Beck Bank Gosberton Clough PE11 4JL
Received 17 Feb 200520 Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding
Received 23 Feb 2004Rear of Red Gables 15A Town Dam Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4TP
Received 17 Apr 2023The Surgery Church Street Donington
Received 22 Jul 200557 Salem Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs, PE11 4NQ
Received 21 Sept 199346 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding PE12 7AF
Received 29 May 2014Ashtree House 72 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AQ
Received 4 Oct 2018FERNDOWN 2 POPLAR DRIVE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4LY
Received 27 Oct 2014TESCO STORES LTD BOSTON ROAD SOUTH HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LR
Received 8 Nov 2023Grove Farm Bridge Road Long Sutton Lincs PE12 9AP
Received 10 Oct 1991HONEYSUCKLE FARM JARVIS GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EU
Received 19 Sept 2016Park Lane Long Sutton
Received 8 Dec 200441 Hall Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7JA
Received 22 Oct 2025Main Road Fleet Hargate
Received 15 Aug 2005Gallery Walk 13 Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 22 Sept 1997Red House Farm Gedney Marsh
Received 6 Mar 2006Records 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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