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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
THE COTTAGE 18 SCHOOL LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HW
Received 26 Oct 2018Rear of 29 Woad Lane Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9LD
Received 30 Nov 201537-41 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Feb 199954 Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6BX
Received 27 Jan 1992Reservoir Road Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 8 Dec 1999Princes Limited Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EQ
Received 30 Nov 20213 MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4XA
Received 9 Jun 2022Parkwood Park Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4UE
Received 7 Oct 201191 Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 17 Mar 2015Postland Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0JB
Received 13 Feb 1998Plot 1, Peterborough Road Crowland Peterborough Cambs
Received 3 Sept 1997St Thomas Road Spalding
Received 17 Jul 2006FLAMINGO FLOWERS LTD STONE GATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6HP
Received 16 Apr 2024YEW TREE HOUSE 3a BEECHFIELD GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1UN
Received 21 Dec 201545 West Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EE
Received 19 Nov 1997High Road Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 200016 Pennygate Spalding
Received 23 Jul 200430A Broadway Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BJ
Received 26 Jan 199626-28 Commercial Road Spalding
Received 3 Jul 2002Mark Forth Independent Funeral Services 10 New Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1DQ
Received 18 Jan 2010Oatsheaf Cottage Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EU
Received 12 Mar 2012Land off Park Road (Railway Close) Spalding PE11 1RF
Received 10 Feb 2009Land Adjacent to 2 Ivy Cottages Lutton Gowts Lutton Spalding PE12 9LQ
Received 19 Jan 2026MANOR HOUSE HALLGATE FLEET SPALDING PE12 8NG
Received 7 Aug 2020Records 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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