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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
DUNTREATH CACKLE HILL LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8BS
Received 27 Sept 201887 89 High Street Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NA
Received 9 Aug 200555 Hallgate Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7JA
Received 12 Jul 2005Centre of Excellence in Agri-food Technology 2 Peppermint Way Holbeach Spalding PE12 7FJ
Received 16 Oct 2024ROOKERY FARM JOYS BANK HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8SD
Received 20 Jun 2018Star Cross Farm Washway Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8BT
Received 10 Feb 2003Catlins Barn Childersgate Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0HX
Received 11 Jun 20266 ORCHARD CLOSE SARACENS HEAD SPALDING PE12 8AR
Received 24 Jul 2017Holding No 6 Chapel Farm Main Road Hop Pole Spalding PE11 3DS
Received 3 Jan 2025Corner House Churchgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TA
Received 31 Oct 2019Land North of The Red Lion Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Mar 1995Land Adj Fengate Drove Weston Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 30 Jan 2023Quadring Cowley Browns Primary School Donington
Received 26 Nov 2002BANK HOUSE 23 ROMAN BANK LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LA
Received 28 Jan 2026THE VICARAGE 5 CHURCH STREET HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7LL
Received 28 Feb 2014The Parsonage Halmergate Spalding
Received 12 May 2005LITTLE CURLEW GUYS HEAD ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QQ
Received 24 Aug 2022'Broadlands' Common Lane Holbeach Clough Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Oct 1992DAK MAR 9 DELPH ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9BX
Received 18 Apr 2023NEALWOOD FISHERGATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EZ
Received 23 Jun 20176 Cobgate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6RP
Received 6 Oct 1998Plot 2 Northorpe Road Donington Spalding
Received 23 Mar 199234 STONEGATE SPALDING PE11 2PH
Received 12 Apr 2019Home Farm Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 11 Dec 2024Records 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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