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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
29,974 approved · 3,759 refused · 1,083 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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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.
Stoney Lodge Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PD
Received 20 Aug 2012The Ridings Shepeau Stow Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TU
Received 29 Jul 2013Horse and Groom Public House 65 High Street Holbeach
Received 23 Nov 2006Lloyds TSB Bank Hall Place Spalding
Received 11 Apr 200654-56 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 2002Hoekman Way Spalding
Received 19 Aug 2010Adj The Childers 26 High Road Whaplode Spalding PE12 6UA
Received 30 Nov 202323 Netherfield Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7NP
Received 18 Jul 2005Hollies Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EW
Received 1 Oct 202552 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 17 Aug 202265 TOWN DROVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QL
Received 24 Nov 20141B Youngs Row Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SS
Received 7 Nov 201690 Broadgate Whaplode Drove
Received 27 Feb 2007off Bull Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 2009HAZELNUT COTTAGE 23 ROMAN BANK SARACENS HEAD - EAST SPALDING PE12 8BB
Received 26 Aug 202040A Cowbit Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2RQ
Received 25 Jul 2007Fengate House Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XR
Received 29 Apr 2003Orchard Leigh Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs. PE11 3TA
Received 20 Jun 20038 Plank Drove Crowland Spalding Lincolnshire PE6 0BY
Received 12 Sept 200088A Spalding Common Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3AU
Received 19 Dec 2013226 BROADGATE WESTON HILLS SPALDING PE12 6DQ
Received 19 Oct 2022The Bungalow High Street Whaplode Spalding
Received 6 Jul 2000LUCKSBRIDGE HORTICULTURE LTD BROADGATE DROVE MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XU
Received 14 Oct 2020SPIRE DENTAL LIMITED 7 MARKET STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DD
Received 19 May 2021Records 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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