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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
230 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 10 Mar 20218 Chapel Lane Spalding
Received 22 Nov 200624-28 High Street Moulton Spalding PE12 6QB
Received 1 Mar 2018Rose Farm Cottage Old Fendyke Sutton St James
Received 11 Jul 2003Norwich & Peterborough Bldg Soc 15 Sheep Market Spalding PE11 1BE
Received 17 Jul 2014Chicks Mansons Farm Monks House Lane Spalding
Received 16 Jan 200236 Main Road Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 199317 Barber Drove North Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BE
Received 30 Oct 2024Crossways Bungalow Main Road Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0PT
Received 27 Nov 2006Alpha 3 Fleet Road Holbeach
Received 11 Sept 2003Rear: Old Black Bull Gedney Drove End
Received 31 Jan 1995Chequers Chase Off Park Road Holbeach
Received 15 Aug 2003HURDLETREE LODGE HURDLETREE BANK HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8QQ
Received 21 Jun 2021The Old Cottage Northons Lane Holbeach
Received 15 Nov 200659 Delgate Bank Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6JB
Received 13 Oct 2005Behind: New Saracens Head Inn Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Nov 199420 Netherfields Holbeach Spalding PE12 7NP
Received 19 Sept 2002Little Chef Restaurant A17 Wisbech Road Long Sutton By-Pass Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Dec 199839 Horsefayre Fields Spalding Lincs PE11 3FA
Received 16 Apr 2003Parkside Crescent Park Road Spalding PE11 1RA
Received 20 Mar 2019Land north of Wardentree Lane Spalding
Received 5 Jun 2002Lockwoods Factory Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 1993Former: Ye Olde Dun Cow 164-166 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AL
Received 6 Oct 2016Bernadorth Gedney Drove End
Received 1 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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