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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 HANNAM BOULEVARD SPALDING PE11 1LA
Received 23 Jan 2025TURKEY FARM NEALS GATE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8SW
Received 12 Oct 201518 Garnsgate Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Oct 200020 Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NN
Received 13 May 2009Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 1993Land to south of Station Road & to east of Methodist Church Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Apr 2000Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8LR
Received 26 Jun 2003Little Holland House Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherine
Received 27 Nov 2007Cowley Road Donington
Received 6 Sept 2005Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LX
Received 1 Oct 2015Marina Villa 5 The Reservoir Surfleet Seas End
Received 4 Aug 2008Cluttons Close Crowland Peterborough PE6 0HD
Received 23 Nov 2000Old Library West Street Long Sutton
Received 7 Dec 2007The Bull Inn Public House 1 Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 12 Aug 200237 Apeldoorn Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1JT
Received 7 Jan 2005Roberts Supermarket Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs
Received 3 May 19967 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 8 Jul 2021Blossom Hill Nursery Short Drove Gosberton Clough
Received 31 Jul 2003Plot east side Rose Villa Counter Drain Drove Tongue End
Received 15 Oct 2004Adj. Moorside The Delph Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Mar 20014 West Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 24 Sept 1997Branches Lane and Princes Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Nov 1996Marden Clay Lake Spalding PE11 2QG
Received 16 Mar 201279A BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JR
Received 23 Jan 2024Records 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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