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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 6 Jul 2004OLIVE TREE LODGE MARSH ROAD GEDNEY DROVE END SPALDING PE12 9PJ
Received 28 Jul 2025Land adjacent: 25 Bowditch Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2QF
Received 29 Nov 2016North Drove Quadring Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 1991Spalding Primary School Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1PB
Received 7 Mar 2012Pygott & Crone 10 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 12 Feb 2009West Cobgate Moulton
Received 30 Mar 2006THE PARSONAGE 1 HALMER GATE SPALDING PE11 2DR
Received 24 Oct 202241 HOLBORN ROAD SPALDING PE11 2SS
Received 25 Oct 2016LEATHERLANDS DOWSDALE BANK CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0NF
Received 19 Feb 2026Sanpit Nurseries Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 11 Jul 1994110 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 24 Aug 1994Land adjacent to 33 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3RA
Received 28 Jan 2014Hocklesgate (Pt OS 0964) Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Aug 1995Off Pennygate Spalding
Received 20 Feb 2003The Old Mission Counter Drain Drove Tongue End Spalding PE11 3JJ
Received 6 Aug 2019Gwendale Dowsdale Bank Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LR
Received 22 Mar 2011Chapel Gate Whaplode Drove
Received 29 May 200783 SEAS END ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DQ
Received 18 Apr 2019Glentyne Farm Frostley Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 8SR
Received 17 Jul 2026Barclays Bank plc 37 market Place Long Sutton Spalding
Received 14 Oct 199161 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Oct 200025 Halmergate Spalding Lincs PE11 2DU
Received 25 Apr 2013South Holland Enterprise Park Enterprise Way Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 25 Jul 1996Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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