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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
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Eagle House Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RY
Received 28 Apr 20262 FIELD FARM 2A SPALDING GATE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6UF
Received 19 Feb 2014Elm House Fengate Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs PE12 0XL
Received 18 Jul 2011Former: The Cottage Mill Bank Holbeach Spalding PE12 8QW
Received 22 Nov 2017Dental Surgery The Lawns London Road Long Sutton
Received 2 May 2002Old Station House Station Road Gedney Spalding PE12 0DD
Received 18 Oct 20245 Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0AL
Received 9 Sept 1994Site north: 1 Banks Avenue Spalding Lincs (Ref 11)
Received 23 Oct 199150 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 31 Jul 2018The Gallops Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3ND
Received 16 May 2003LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC 15 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SF
Received 24 Nov 2015Land North Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 1 Mar 200545 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HG
Received 19 Oct 2004Spalding Power Station West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 22 Dec 20062 ROMAN BANK LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LA
Received 4 Jun 2020Flat 20 Winsover Road Spalding
Received 20 Aug 200828 Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding
Received 17 Aug 2004The Aviary 6 Reform Street Crowland PE6 0AN
Received 28 Sept 2011Postland Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 11 Feb 20008 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UA
Received 21 Nov 2019Between 37 & 45 Clough Road & between 45 & 53 Clough Road Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 30 Jan 1998Former Goodfellows School Spalding Common Spalding PE11 3AS
Received 5 Dec 2019Martins Farm Martin's Road Postland Crowland
Received 26 Jun 2008Gothic Farm Dog Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0RZ
Received 23 Feb 1993Records 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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