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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Damgate Holbeach
Received 26 Jun 2000Lutton Outmarsh National Nature Reserve Sutton Bridge Estate Sutton Bridge
Received 14 Jan 199311A Station Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UQ
Received 4 Jun 2014Manor House Farm Main Road Quadring Spalding
Received 3 Jun 2015Plot rear: 5 The Wentworths Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9RT
Received 1 Aug 201998 High Street Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NA
Received 18 May 2011The Gables Millgate Whaplode St Catherine
Received 24 Mar 200528 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QD
Received 17 Jul 2023Land north of Town Dam Lane Donington
Received 16 Oct 2008Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8SR
Received 31 Aug 200516 Park Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1PW
Received 13 Dec 2007Land adjacent to 347 and 355 High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 19 Jan 2017Off Roman Bank Lutton Gowts
Received 6 May 20049 BEAR LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3XA
Received 24 Aug 2020Cley Hall Hotel 22 High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 199519 Hall Place Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 1995Cackle Hill Farmhouse Boston Road Holbeach, Spalding Lincs, PE12 8AG
Received 12 May 1993TORRINGTON LODGE TORRINGTON LANE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NJ
Received 4 Aug 2026In the parish of Sutton St James, Sutton St Edmund and Gedney Hill
Received 14 Aug 1992Former National Tyres Unit, Swan Street Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Aug 1999Land off St Johns Street & Barrington Gate Holbeach
Received 20 Nov 2002The Mill House Mill Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UE
Received 22 Aug 2013Land off Balmoral Way Holbeach Spalding
Received 12 Oct 2020Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 1999Records 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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