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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Eye Farm Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding PE12 0LT
Received 6 Nov 2018Lazy Acre Caravan Site Little Dog Drove Holbeach St Johns Spalding PE12 8RR
Received 18 Sept 2025River Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Sept 199313 Church Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2RA
Received 3 Nov 2006Osborne House Farm Swale Bank Gosberton Westhorpe Spalding
Received 23 Feb 1998off Sarahgate Lane Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QE
Received 10 Oct 201610 Highgrove Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9ER
Received 14 May 2004Rear of 'Glen Eagles' Stockhouse Lane Surfleet Spalding, Lincs
Received 14 Mar 2001West Marsh Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2BB
Received 3 Aug 1998Rear garden Holmfield House 12 Station Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UQ
Received 4 Jun 20132 MEADWAY SPALDING PE11 3LQ
Received 3 Sept 2021Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jun 2011SYCAMORE HOUSE 25 LOW GATE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NL
Received 17 May 202311 Churchway Tydd St Mary Cambs PE13 5QY
Received 30 Jun 1995FORMER: ALPHA MATERIALS HANDLING RAVENS GATE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RD
Received 2 Feb 2016SEAS END HALL HALL LANE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LB
Received 29 Sept 202539 Lowgate Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9HP
Received 17 Jan 2008Ivy House, Gosberton Bank Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 1997Unit 5 Venture Court Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3JG
Received 11 Apr 201154 Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1QF
Received 15 Nov 2013The Farm House Grays Farm North Drove Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 3JX
Received 24 May 2005Adj. 'Bay-Lea' Broadgate Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jan 1993Poplar Farm Old Fen Dyke Road Sutton St James
Received 23 Aug 2001Six House Bank West Pinchbeck
Received 29 Sept 2004Records 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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