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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Plot 158 off The Hayfields Wygate Park Spalding Lincs PE11 3LP
Received 4 Oct 2011Adjacent: The Golden Ball River Bank Spalding PE11 3AA
Received 27 Jan 201728 Westlode Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1AF
Received 25 Sept 20134 Gimmels Gate Sutton Crosses Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 31 Mar 1999Sutton St James Community School Bells Drove Sutton St James
Received 14 Dec 2001Rear: 78 North Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EF
Received 9 Oct 1992Crowtree Farm Barns White Cross Lane Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AJ
Received 8 Jul 2020Houses on land between 2 and 14 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 16 Jun 2014Wygate Park (Plots B34, B35 & B36) - North of Distributor Road Spalding
Received 24 Dec 1997Mayden House Bervor Close Wardentree Lane Spalding PE11 3UF
Received 26 Oct 2012Carter's Farm Oxcroft Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0TY
Received 26 Jun 20251 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DQ
Received 24 Mar 2009Nelsons Cottage Clough Road Gosberton Clough
Received 6 Jan 2004Plot 1 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding
Received 23 Mar 1992The Manor Washway Road Holbeach
Received 3 Aug 2007Pear Tree House Farm 117 Luttongate Gedney Hill Spalding, Lincs PE12 0QH
Received 6 Aug 2003SALON BEAUTIFUL 134A BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SF
Received 10 Aug 2020WESTBOURNE HOUSE 3A COWBIT ROAD SPALDING PE11 2RD
Received 19 Jun 2017Camel Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 2000East of Eversley House (Pt. OS 4259) Mill Lane Gedney Hill
Received 7 Oct 1996Gedney Poultry Farm Eastfields Luttongate Road Gedney Hill PE12 0PA
Received 16 Feb 202430 St Johns Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6DG
Received 31 Oct 2013Havencombe Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EF
Received 11 Sept 2024Land north Vernatts Drain Spalding Road Pinchbeck
Received 4 Dec 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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