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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
37,483 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
SILVERHILL HOUSE LUTTON GOWTS LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LQ
Received 17 Jan 201432 NURSERY WAY SPALDING PE11 1GD
Received 17 Mar 2016CERTO CITO 27 HILLGATE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0NN
Received 30 May 2023CARAVAN 68 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 8 Jul 2022139 Bourne Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3LJ
Received 5 Aug 2010KENNULPHS FARM WRIGHTS DROVE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0AB
Received 10 Apr 2017Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 9 Apr 2003St Johns Street Holbeach
Received 12 Aug 200534 The Tilney Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Aug 1998Port Sutton Bridge Sutton Bridge
Received 14 Aug 200136 North Road Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 7 May 2002Fleet Road/Cherry Lane Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jan 1997Plots adj. Old School House Cross Road Sutton St Edmunds Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Dec 199916 New Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 1DQ
Received 17 Dec 20243 Hutchinson Gardens Weston Spalding Lincs PE12 6WB
Received 15 Sept 2005Rear 27 and 29 Campbells Close Spalding
Received 23 Jun 2004POPLAR FARM OLD FENDYKE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0HE
Received 7 Nov 202455 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DB
Received 19 Apr 20226 Church Street Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2PB
Received 29 Sept 201415 LONDON ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9EA
Received 2 Mar 201792 Holbeach Road Spalding
Received 21 Jun 200786 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 1996Engine Shed Mill Drove South Cowbit Spalding
Received 5 Feb 2024The Poplars Hogs Gate Moulton
Received 26 Mar 2003Records 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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