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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
37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6A HERRING LANE SPALDING PE11 1TL
Received 20 Apr 2023Metalair Feldbinder Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Mar 199819 London Road Welland Terrace Spalding Lincs PE11 2TA
Received 25 Jul 2013Nursery Premises Blazegate Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0AD
Received 23 Jun 1993Highstock Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QG
Received 5 Oct 201723 Victoria Street Spalding Lincs
Received 15 May 1995Pear Tree Hill Road Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs.
Received 11 Nov 2002Plot 1 Marsh Road Gedney Drove End
Received 7 Dec 2001Rear of 1-7 Pipwell Gate Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Sept 2000Gleed Girls School Neville Avenue Spalding
Received 26 Jul 200659 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9ED
Received 20 Jun 20011A Harvester Way Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0DG
Received 5 Nov 2010Land off Dean Close/Small Drove Weston Spalding
Received 8 Oct 202018 PUDDINGPOKE LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HZ
Received 26 Jun 2017Phase 2 Backgate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AP
Received 2 Jan 2019Land north of Grange Farm Tydd St Marys Marsh Wisbech PE13 5QZ
Received 8 Aug 2011Main Road Service Station Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding
Received 1 Jun 1998Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Feb 1994108 Roman Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Nov 1992Old Station Yard Station Road Holbeach Lincs
Received 27 Oct 2000Land North of Pennytoft Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PQ
Received 19 Aug 2010REALTIME BUSINESS SERVICES THE BIRCHES 82 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK PE11 3YA
Received 19 Sept 2016Land adjoining 9 17 Chapel Gate Whaplode Drove
Received 23 May 2002Gosberton House Care Home Westhorpe Road Gosberton
Received 17 Jun 2010Records 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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