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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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
'Hill House Farm' Old Manor Road Saracens Head PE12 8AZ
Received 16 Jan 20098a High Street Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9UH
Received 23 Dec 2011IVY HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LH
Received 31 Jul 2017Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8LR
Received 25 Jun 2009Gosberton Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs, PE11 4AD
Received 25 Oct 1995The Pines Pilmore Lane Spalding Lincs PE12 6EG
Received 29 Mar 200032 Crossgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 21 Mar 2001BRUNSWICK VILLA 6 WISBECH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AG
Received 12 Feb 2019142 PINCHBECK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1QN
Received 30 Jun 2016126 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jul 19971 MARKET STREET LONG SUTTON SPALDING SPALDING PE12 9DD
Received 20 Dec 2018One Stop Community Stores Ltd West End Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LW
Received 11 Dec 20131 WILLIAM CLOSE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XW
Received 21 Aug 2019Thomas Cowley High School School Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4TF
Received 12 Jun 2013The Barn Coldhurn Lane Gosberton Westhorpe Spalding PE11 4LH
Received 19 Sept 2014Nutten Stoven Residential Home 81 Boston Road Holbeach
Received 8 Dec 2004J O Sims Ltd Pudding Lane Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3TJ
Received 31 May 2024THE OLD VICARAGE ST MARKS ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8DZ
Received 25 Oct 2022Off Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RT
Received 22 Jan 201924 & 25 Red Lion Street Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Sept 1993Cloudtenn DTC Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove Spalding PE12 0PT
Received 26 Apr 2021Geest Sutton Bridge Ltd Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge
Received 25 Apr 20022-8 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Mar 19987 BROAD LANE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PN
Received 22 Jan 2018Records 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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