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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Gables Nursery New Fen Drove Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PY
Received 13 Apr 202245 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 16 Mar 2015The Rams Nene Terrace Crowland PE6 0LD
Received 15 Mar 201095 Gedney Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jun 199496 Railway Lane South Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9XA
Received 9 Jul 202645 Langwith Gardens Holbeach Spalding PE12 7JJ
Received 24 Jan 2017White Hart Hotel Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 1998TOLETHORPE LODGE 49 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QF
Received 2 Mar 2016The Gallops Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3ND
Received 21 May 2008Newlands Cottage Park Lane Surfleet, Spalding Lincs. PE11 4AF
Received 8 May 200070 Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Sept 200117 St Marys Gardens Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6XJ
Received 2 May 20025 ATHERTON GARDENS PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YJ
Received 19 Jul 202391 Peters Point Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs. PE12 9UX
Received 22 Aug 2002Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QG
Received 1 Jul 2011Cranberry House Common Road Moulton Seas End
Received 9 Mar 2004The Mansion House High Street Holbeach
Received 7 Apr 2006Rear 240-242 Park Road Spalding
Received 2 May 2008SILVERWOOD GARDEN CENTRE BROWNS GATE LONG SUTTON SPALDING
Received 10 May 2022Rose Tree House 132 Chapelgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EE
Received 26 Mar 200814 MILL LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NN
Received 3 May 20164 Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1NX
Received 7 Jun 2013THE BELL INN 33 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UB
Received 15 Oct 2025SUNFLOWERS CRANESGATE SOUTH HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RJ
Received 20 Sept 2023Records 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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