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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
240 BROADGATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LT
Received 23 Nov 2021Honeypot Day Nursery & Pre-School 230 Broadgate Weston Hills Spalding Lincs PE12 6DQ
Received 19 May 2009Whaplode Filling Station High Road Whaplode
Received 20 Jun 2003The Chapel Emporium London Road Long Sutton
Received 1 Aug 2005Adjacent: 29 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9BX
Received 25 Apr 2019Ayscoughfee Hall School Welland Hall London Road PE11 2TE
Received 18 Jun 201244 Double Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AB
Received 21 Mar 2013Land adjacent 46 High Street Gosberton
Received 10 Oct 2006Halfords Superstore Hollands Market Spalding
Received 28 Jul 2004Long Lane Nursery (Former Kingfisher) Long Lane Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PP
Received 12 Feb 2018ST PETER AND ST PAULS CHURCH WESTHORPE ROAD GOSBERTON SPALDING
Received 25 Jun 2019Damgate Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8PB
Received 1 Oct 199153 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 19 Jul 20164 GRANGE FARM COCKLEHOLE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE34 4HH
Received 12 Apr 2021'Ostler's Cottage' Church End Quadring PE11 4SQ
Received 7 Jan 200990 Park Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QY
Received 25 Nov 2009Elsom House, Broad Street Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 199626 Needham Drive Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EG
Received 11 Oct 2016Store & Premises 86 Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1HA
Received 19 May 20265 Stonegate Spalding
Received 24 Nov 2005Playing field at Rectory Road Tydd St. Mary Wisbech PE13 5QL
Received 1 May 2014AUBRETIA CRANESGATE SOUTH WHAPLODE ST CATHERINE SPALDING PE12 6SN
Received 12 Apr 201937 to 39 Knight Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3RA
Received 22 Oct 2012Land off Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 7 Oct 1992Records 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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