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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
30,069 approved · 3,768 refused · 1,087 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 CORONATION AVENUE DEEPING ST NICHOLAS SPALDING PE11 3EP
Received 8 Nov 202419 Tavistock Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2UY
Received 12 Jun 200617 Barbers Drove North Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 11 Jul 20222 WOOLRAM WYGATE SPALDING PE11 1NX
Received 5 Jun 2025Water Gate Quadring Spalding PE11 4QB
Received 10 Nov 20162 Burnstone Gardens Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Sept 2004Plot 1, Westbourne Gardens Spalding
Received 26 Jun 2000Off Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LT
Received 20 Feb 2019LONG ACRES 201 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 11 May 2015143 Starlode Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3TD
Received 19 Feb 2008Land at Harrington Way Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AU
Received 17 Apr 2019White House Chambers Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AU
Received 28 Aug 200115 Fishpond Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Jul 200443 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 2006MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS LTD VICARAGE LANE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AF
Received 5 Jun 2017Northcote Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PU
Received 5 Aug 2010Snowdrop Bungalow Snowdrop Farm Holbeach St Johns
Received 26 Sept 2006MIAOWS SARAHGATE LANE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QE
Received 29 Aug 2017Whaplode House 10 Stockwell Gate West Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6WG
Received 7 Jul 201724 Magellan Way Spalding PE11 2FH
Received 20 Sept 2016Fossils Farm Northgate Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4LJ
Received 23 Jul 2009Station Road Surfleet
Received 17 Nov 20031 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 2000Lefleys Garage Station Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LF
Received 1 Sept 2014Records 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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