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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37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 5 Draw Dyke Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0EP
Received 24 Apr 2019The Cottage Broad Lane Saracens Head Spalding Lincs PE12 8BG
Received 26 Oct 2009Baileys Lane Holbeach Hurn PE12 8JP
Received 12 Dec 2001SHOP AND PREMISES 46 KNIGHT STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RB
Received 20 Aug 2021Bottom End, Stockwell Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 1995Castle Sports Complex Albion Street Spalding PE11 2AJ
Received 18 Jun 202518 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7HG
Received 26 Jan 2006Land off Lowgate Gosberton
Received 24 Jan 2008Bus Station, Chatterton Tower & Environment Agency sites Winfrey Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1999Rectory Farm Rectory Road Tydd St Mary Spalding PE13 5QL
Received 15 Sept 2025The Florins Hurn Road Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs PE12 8JE
Received 15 Apr 2011Premier Foods Ltd Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9QE
Received 25 Mar 2011Eastfields Hostel 41 Fleet Road Fleet Spalding PE12 8LA
Received 12 Apr 2017102 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding, Lincs
Received 29 Apr 1999The Chequers Main Street Gedney Dyke Spalding PE12 0AJ
Received 8 May 2024Adjacent: 22 Station Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0NP
Received 26 Nov 2019Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3JA
Received 22 Jul 2016Marsh Farm Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Feb 200272 Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jun 1993WARRENS REST CAPES ENTRY COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AG
Received 2 Jun 2017156 Park Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QZ
Received 19 Mar 199623 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 19941 DARLEYS BUNGALOW MILL GREEN ROAD PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PY
Received 26 Oct 2020Amberley 128 Boston Road North Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8AD
Received 7 Feb 2006Records 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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