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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37,473 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
A17/Main Road/Station Road Roundabout Chapelgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0DU
Received 30 Mar 2021Army Cadet Force HQ Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 23 May 1997Land west of Woolram Wygate (Phase 3b), Wygate Park Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Feb 1995HIDES FARM THE COMMON CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0HL
Received 25 Feb 2026Spalding Grammar School Haverfield Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 24 Feb 1998Wharf Street Sutton Bridge
Received 16 May 2005Back Lane Daniels Gate Long Sutton PE12 7DL
Received 2 Aug 2007Adj. "Grasmere" 72 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Mar 199420 CHESTNUT AVENUE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7NE
Received 4 May 2021Millgate Lodge Millgate Whaplode
Received 18 Oct 2004HILLS DEPARTMENT STORE 5 - 6 BRIDGE STREET SPALDING PE11 1XA
Received 28 Apr 2016MOULTON CHAPEL YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE 17 WOODGATE ROAD MOULTON CHAPEL SPALDING PE12 0XF
Received 15 May 20197 Church Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UD
Received 18 Mar 2013York Place Damgate Holbeach Spalding, Lincs. PE12 8QL
Received 21 Jan 2003Plot 48 21 Woodrow Place Pennygate Spalding
Received 5 Mar 2007V P Nurseries, 3 Mallard Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Aug 1997Park House Park Lane Surfleet Spalding, Lincs. PE11 4DF
Received 2 Sept 2002Hydraulic House, West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Dec 1996Rear of Bridge Hotel Bridge Road Sutton Bridge PE12 5QA
Received 8 Oct 2020Adjacent 16 Abbey Walk Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EP
Received 20 Jan 2012Wardentree Park Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs.
Received 12 Jan 2000Land between 31 & 35 Westhorpe Road Gosberton Spalding PE11 4EN
Received 10 Aug 2026White House Chambers Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AU
Received 16 Dec 199110 Barbers Drove South Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE3 0BE
Received 15 Jul 2003Records 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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