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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 between 47 and 47A Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 13 Jan 20046 Stanley Drive Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Oct 1997Pendeen 136 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QG
Received 27 Jun 2002The Ranch Scrapyard Clay Lake Spalding
Received 27 Mar 2002Gunthorpe Road Solar Farm Land south of Gunthorpe Road Walpole Marsh Wisbech PE14 7JH
Received 25 Feb 2026Westholme 32 West End Holbeach Spalding, Lincs.
Received 2 Jun 1998Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 17 Dec 2001Land adjacent The Poplars Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck
Received 21 Nov 2006Land off Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 1996Ivy House Farm Sutton Road Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HU
Received 21 May 2026New Bridge Inn Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3NF
Received 28 May 200834 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Nov 1995PENDENNIS LUTTON GOWTS LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LQ
Received 21 Aug 2018Silverwood Nursery Brownsgate Sutton Crosses
Received 12 Aug 200535 and 37 High Street Holbeach PE12 7DY
Received 17 Sept 2012Baytree Nurseries and Garden Centre High Road Weston
Received 21 Nov 2003Stephenson Avenue South Holland Enterprise Park Spalding
Received 4 Jul 200551 Roman Bank Saracens head Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 1994Land off Kirkgate/Cross Street (Former Green's Car Park Area ) Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TE
Received 21 May 20144 Winds Equitation Centre Leaveslake Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Oct 199317 New Road Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Sept 2007Old Crown Farm Carrington Road Moulton Seas End Spalding
Received 14 Aug 2014Land off Bridge Road Sutton Bridge
Received 31 Oct 200323/25 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 6 May 1994Records 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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