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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
37,200 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adj. Heron Cottage Camping and Caravanning Frostley Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 28 Jun 2021MERMAID INN 2 GOSBERTON ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AB
Received 11 Jul 201711 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 3 Jan 20182A Hixs Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech Cambs PE13 5QW
Received 26 Aug 201180 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4ET
Received 29 Apr 2024Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UP
Received 4 May 20173 Market Place Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Jan 199821a & 21b Johnson Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 199624 & 24A Market Place Donington Spalding
Received 2 Mar 1993Land between Horseshoe Road/ Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Feb 1996The White House 81 Main Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 1994Land at Cowpers Gate Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Nov 1999Danish Bacon Company 86 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs, PE11 1HB
Received 23 Oct 19916 Baxter Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 1HS
Received 6 Jul 2006THE BEECHES BRIDGE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EJ
Received 10 Apr 2015The Old Rectory 8 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UD
Received 10 Oct 2006HALMER COURT 108 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2EL
Received 27 Jan 2021Bridge Road/High Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Dec 1994GORE LANE OFFICES GORE LANE SPALDING PE11 1BN
Received 21 Jun 2016Land off Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Dec 199545 NORTH STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0EG
Received 1 Aug 202012 Lancaster Close Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9FX
Received 9 Feb 201215 THE SIDINGS LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9FA
Received 22 Sept 201723 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Oct 2007Records 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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