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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37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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: 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Thary Lane Surfleet Spalding
Received 22 Oct 2015LORDS MANOR BARN HOSPITAL DROVE LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EN
Received 24 Oct 2023Land to south of 199 Cradge Bank Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 5 Mar 20255 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4ET
Received 21 Mar 1997Gate Farm Holbeach Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6JR
Received 13 Dec 2013Land off Damgate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 22 Sept 2026Plot at Lutton Gate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 1998Karhil 15 Low Road Spalding PE12 6ED
Received 16 Dec 20168 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3UD
Received 7 Mar 2025Fen Farm Barns Grange Hill Road Tydd St Marys Fen
Received 27 Feb 20075 Windsor Avenue Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7AN
Received 14 Jun 2005Fairview Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BE
Received 19 Sept 2025Land rear 10 Carrington Road Spalding
Received 20 Nov 200758 Fleet Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 1996TEA ROSE COTTAGE MAIN ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PD
Received 8 Aug 2024Foxes Lowe Road Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 23 Jun 199852 COBGATE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6UL
Received 2 Dec 2014M B E ( FABRICATIONS) LTD TOWN DROVE QUADRING SPALDING PE11 4QP
Received 9 May 2016Rear of 4 Thorney Road Crowland PE6 0AL
Received 6 Dec 202215 THE RESERVOIR SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DH
Received 7 Nov 2022CHARITY FARM 87 CLOUGH ROAD GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JW
Received 27 Aug 2019Adj Cowfield Gould Cottage Cowfield Gould Holbeach Spalding PE12 8DP
Received 2 Jun 202011 Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 13 Mar 2001SCOTIA CRANESGATE NORTH WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SR
Received 21 Jun 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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