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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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
37 BOWDITCH ROAD SPALDING PE11 2QF
Received 10 May 2023100 Quadring Road Donington Spalding PE11 4SJ
Received 19 Feb 2018Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3YR
Received 3 Oct 2016Old Health Care Centre Allenbys Chase Sutton Bridge
Received 12 Apr 2007ELSOMS LTD ALBERT WAREHOUSE PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QG
Received 30 Oct 2024Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 2 Feb 1999The Old Coach House 8 High Street Moulton
Received 8 Jun 2007Green Acres Bells Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JG
Received 30 May 20084 Chestnut Close Lutton
Received 27 Feb 2008Sandpit Nurseries Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Jun 1995Wool Hall Cross Gate Wykeham
Received 16 Jul 200349-51 Albert Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2LD
Received 18 Aug 1998Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jul 199243/45 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Sept 1995BRIDGE HOUSE PARK LANE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AF
Received 13 Jun 202526 Halmergate Spalding Lincs
Received 6 May 200425 SPRINGFIELDS OUTLET CENTRE CAMEL GATE SPALDING PE12 6ES
Received 18 Oct 201711 Wood Bank Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3EL
Received 6 Jul 2015GRAFT HOUSE 13 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RA
Received 16 Mar 2018Bens Gate Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs PE12 8PQ
Received 9 Apr 1991Site off Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Apr 2000CEDARS 35 HIGH STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9DB
Received 19 Apr 2024Deeping Farm Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3BW
Received 11 Feb 201117 St Johns Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Oct 2005Records 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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