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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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Snake Hall Eaugate Road Moulton Eaugate Spalding Lincs PE12 0TB
Received 29 Apr 2003Bridge Farm Nursery Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Mar 1997293-296 Bourne Road Pode Hole
Received 7 Jan 2008OAK TREE COTTAGE 14a STATION ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BP
Received 9 Jun 2020QUINCE COTTAGE HUNDRED FEN GOSBERTON CLOUGH SPALDING PE11 4LF
Received 13 Aug 2024Site south of Tweenus Cobgate Whaplode
Received 1 Sept 2003TRETTON MANOR BARNS LOWGATE TYDD ST MARY
Received 18 Feb 2022K F F (Potatoes) Limited West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 15 Jan 2001120 LONDON ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EE
Received 12 Jan 2023Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 7LG
Received 7 Feb 2000Garden Ground adj. 16 Abbey Walk Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EP
Received 30 Jun 2000Land adjacent to and north of 42 Spalding Common Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jul 20108 High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Jul 1999Willowlea Barn Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PY
Received 16 Sept 2024Adjacent 5 Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6DD
Received 1 Feb 2012Adjacent to Victoria Cottage Stockwell Gate North Whaplode Spalding PE12 6WH
Received 17 Jul 2024On Riverbank adj to Selby House High Street Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Jan 2014'Meadow View' 24 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NL
Received 1 Jun 2009Chapel Gate Whaplode Drove
Received 11 May 2007HONEYSUCKLE FARM JARVIS GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EU
Received 6 Jan 2017134 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AL
Received 16 Mar 200457 Days Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4ZT
Received 11 Aug 2006Caravan A4, Fields Farm Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9SN
Received 14 Oct 202018 Gedney Road Long Sutton Lincs PE12 9JN
Received 20 Apr 2000Records 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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