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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 RANDALL BANK MOULTON EAUGATE SPALDING PE12 0RT
Received 15 Feb 2016D Brown Building Contractors Ltd Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding PE12 6LD
Received 21 Sept 2021WOAD HOUSE COMMON ROAD MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LF
Received 6 May 2026Home Farm, Hollands Chase West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jun 1995Angels Meadow Roman Bank Holbeach Clough
Received 17 Sept 2004Broadgate Road Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Jan 199822 GREENFIELDS HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7BJ
Received 29 Nov 2022115-119 Battlefields Lane North Holbeach Spalding PE12 7PF
Received 3 Mar 2020Plots 1-6, Backgate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AP
Received 4 Jul 1996Longacres 201 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 20 Mar 2000Four Winds 3 Tydd Low Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9AR
Received 16 Dec 2020Sunrise Ravens Bank Sutton St James Spalding, Lincs
Received 16 Feb 1999Adjacent Braemar Mill Lane Whaplode
Received 5 Jan 2007D and R Simmons 45 Market Way Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PE
Received 7 Aug 201213 LONDON ROAD SPALDING PE11 2TA
Received 13 Feb 201544 Double Street Spalding PE11 2AB
Received 19 Nov 2012FLEET HOUSE OLD MAIN ROAD FLEET HARGATE SPALDING PE12 8LL
Received 9 May 2023D G M Growers Roman Bank Holbeach Clough Spalding PE12 8BB
Received 20 Feb 2025Farmhouse Cottage Cuckoo Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3XT
Received 14 Feb 2005Pear Tree House Farm 117 Luttongate Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0QH
Received 26 Jul 2007Plot 1 Low Lane Holbeach Spalding, Lincs
Received 28 Nov 1991106 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Mar 20041 Newlands Road Surfleet SPALDING PE11 4DT
Received 9 Jun 2017The New House Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 19 Aug 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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