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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Peterborough Road and Harrington Drive Crowland Peterborough PE6 0AT
Received 27 Nov 2023Cuckoo Lodge North Drove Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3JF
Received 7 Sept 2000Chase Lodge, Fifth Drove Gosberton Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 4 May 1995ROSE COTTAGE BIRDS DROVE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BE
Received 22 Apr 2014Churchills, Minerva House 49 West Street Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BN
Received 17 Mar 2026Land rear Zabs Supermarket Commercial Road Spalding
Received 9 Feb 200625 MARKET WAY PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PE
Received 19 Jan 2017Between 28 & 30 Cranmore Lane Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Sept 1997ST PAULS PRIMARY SCHOOL QUEENS ROAD SPALDING PE11 2JQ
Received 5 Sept 2023The Gallops Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ND
Received 25 May 2011Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 17 Jan 2000North Level House Front Road Foul Anchor Tydd Gote PE13 5RF
Received 3 Aug 201213 St Marys Gardens Whaplode
Received 30 Apr 2007Crown Farm Stockwell Gate West Whaplode Spalding PE12 6WG
Received 29 Feb 202448 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Feb 1994Malting Lane Donington Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4XA
Received 23 Nov 201544 CLEY HALL DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2EB
Received 25 Jan 2023Cawood Hall Cawood Lane Gosberton
Received 12 Sept 2002LEAVESLAKE MANOR LEAVESLAKE DROVE WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3QJ
Received 14 Jul 201414 NORTH PARADE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7AJ
Received 27 Jul 20165 HORSEPIT LANE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YB
Received 20 Nov 2015Cornfields Lutton Bank Lutton
Received 17 Apr 200763 Double Street Spalding PE11 2AB
Received 7 Jan 2009North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NL
Received 27 Jun 1997Records 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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