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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
82 Knight Street Pinchbeck
Received 17 Aug 2005Marsh Road Gedney Drove End
Received 22 Aug 200131 Clay Lake Spalding PE11 2QG
Received 5 Apr 2013Cinder Ash Park London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 18 Apr 201788A Spalding Common Spalding Lincs PE11 3AU
Received 21 Jul 201110 Broad Street Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 19945 The Avenue Campains Lane Deeping St Nicholas Spalding Lincs PE11 3EX
Received 22 Mar 2010Nene Terrace Crowland PE6 0LD
Received 14 Dec 200588A Spalding Common Spalding Lincs PE11 3AU
Received 8 Sept 20147 Torfrida Close Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0LW
Received 8 Sept 1993Reed Shoals Farm Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3ND
Received 8 Apr 2016OLD SCHOOL HOUSE LONG LANE GEDNEY HILL SPALDING PE12 0PP
Received 12 May 2022Joe's (The Old Fire Station) Double Street Spalding PE11 2AB
Received 9 Jan 200978 Stonegate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PH
Received 9 Oct 20013 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 1998Quo Vardis Low Road Spalding
Received 5 Nov 200210 Saxon Close Spalding Lincs PE12 6AX
Received 7 Jul 2004Munchkins Kindergarten Priory Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2XA
Received 29 Aug 2017Land Adjacent 117 Main Road Quadring Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4PJ
Received 11 Apr 2023ROSEMEAD STOTONS GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8SB
Received 5 Jul 2022Bejing Palace Restaurant Main Road Gedney Spalding Lincs PE12 0BW
Received 5 May 2010Barn Adjacent to Holly Cottage Old Fen Dike Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HE
Received 27 Oct 2026TRETTON MANOR BARNS LOWGATE TYDD ST MARY SPALDING
Received 27 Jun 2022Sarahgate Nursery Sarahgate Lane Quadring
Received 29 Jul 2008Records 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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