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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
37,477 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
FOWLER WELCH LTD WEST MARSH ROAD SPALDING PE11 2BB
Received 6 Nov 201717 Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3XY
Received 26 Sept 2006QUEENS BANK HOUSE QUEENS BANK CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0JR
Received 15 Nov 2021Orchard Cottage Birds Drove Surfleet PE11 4BE
Received 14 Apr 202212 Baxter Gardens Spalding Lincs PE11 3YL
Received 14 Jul 2016Plot 5 Elsom Way Wardentree Park Pinchbeck
Received 3 Jun 2005GOSBERTON MEDICAL CENTRE LOW GATE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NL
Received 21 Apr 2021North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Aug 199329 Mill Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4TL
Received 21 Oct 2011SIR JOHN GLEED SCHOOL NEVILLE AVENUE SPALDING PE11 2EH
Received 20 May 2016The Square 1-16 Church Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2PA
Received 11 Feb 201016 Chaldean Way Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 7 Dec 2000Cecil Francis Farm Yard Blue Gowt Drove Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PX
Received 1 May 2018Green Gables Wykes Lane Donington
Received 29 Feb 2008COWLEY ENDOWED PRIMARY SCHOOL TOWN DAM LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4TR
Received 24 Mar 202518 Dunlin Drive Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Sept 1996DECOY FARM SPALDING ROAD CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH
Received 6 Sept 2016SOUTH LINCS VET GROUP LTD 20 WEST END HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7YY
Received 23 Nov 201517 HARVEYS CLOSE SPALDING PE11 2NX
Received 23 Dec 2024Lowgate Lutton
Received 21 Nov 200250 Joys Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs PE12 8SD
Received 29 Apr 2009Land adjacent: 89 Peterspoint Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs, PE12 9UU
Received 14 Apr 1992The Blacksmiths Cottage 2 Swapcote Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HD
Received 7 Mar 2003The Cottage Fengate Road West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NE
Received 14 Jun 2011Records 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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