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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
87 Mole Drove Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Dec 20066 WEST STREET CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0ED
Received 2 Oct 201528 Albert Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7DR
Received 23 Jun 2005146 FIELDS FARM BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SN
Received 8 Oct 2020236 Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 11 Mar 1993Dawsons Charity Farm Clough Road Gosberton Clough Spalding
Received 30 Sept 19972 SCHOOL LANE LUTTON SPALDING PE12 9HW
Received 4 Jan 2022Off Lowgate Fleet Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 8LN
Received 22 Jan 2010Angies Plant Centre Weston Hills Road Spalding
Received 2 May 2003Land between Horseshoe Road/ Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Dec 1994Plot 2, Saracens Head Nursery Washway Road Saracens Head Spalding
Received 1 Dec 1997102 PENNYGATE SPALDING PE11 1NW
Received 7 Mar 2017Emmett UK Ltd Washway Road Moulton Marsh
Received 16 Jul 2007Decoy Farm Spalding Road Crowland Peterborough PE6 0LX
Received 30 Dec 201121 Osier Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1UU
Received 11 Dec 2006Old Health Centre Site West Street Long Sutton
Received 24 Aug 2005The Old Axe and Handsaw 2 Shivean Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PL
Received 11 Nov 2010"Southview" Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Oct 1992The Old Chapel 82 Seas End Road Surfleet Spalding PE11 4DQ
Received 20 Nov 2024HOMING 20 CHURCH STREET PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3UA
Received 14 Dec 2020Land west of Woolram Wygate Plot 113 (known as Phase 5) Wygate Park Spalding, Lincs
Received 31 Jan 199691 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DB
Received 22 Dec 2020Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Jan 1998Land rear 10-26 Postland Road 1-25 Cloot Drove Crowland
Received 29 Jun 2006Records 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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