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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
30,473 approved · 3,804 refused · 1,101 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
QUADRING FEN VILLAGE HALL BECK BANK QUADRING FEN SPALDING PE11 4RA
Received 13 Oct 20142-8 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Apr 19981 Ranville Close Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3YD
Received 12 Mar 2004Sholtsgate Nursery Sholtsgate Whaplode Spalding, Lincs. PE12 6TZ
Received 7 Apr 200322 Little London Spalding
Received 20 Feb 200465 Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2HY
Received 9 Nov 2012Granite House Chapelgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BJ
Received 9 Sept 2016Winterdale East Road Tydd Gote
Received 15 May 2003Holly Tree House Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XR
Received 24 Mar 202558 Battlefields Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7PQ
Received 7 Jan 2004Weston Village Stores 1 Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HS
Received 12 Mar 20182 DAIRY CLOSE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3ZE
Received 31 Jan 2023Clinton Cards 3 Hall Place Spalding
Received 19 Feb 2008THE CEDARS 25 WOODGATE ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XF
Received 12 Nov 201813 Water Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 2TQ
Received 28 Mar 2008Green Acres Park Roper's Gate Gedney Lincolnshire PE12 0GA
Received 13 May 202414 High Street Holbeach
Received 21 Apr 2006The Anglia Business Centre Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 9 May 2025Old Garage Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 12 May 2011Spalding Golf Club Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 2002W H Brand 77 Broadgate Whaplode Drove
Received 21 Jun 2007THE VILLA 83 NEW ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RQ
Received 24 Jan 20221 Small Drove Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6HS
Received 8 Sept 20037 Market Street Long Sutton
Received 18 May 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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