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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
175 ST JOHNS ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JD
Received 28 Sept 2022After Dark 30A Boston Road South Holbeach
Received 8 Sept 20041 CHANCERY LANE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7DS
Received 19 Mar 202415 PENWAY DRIVE PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3PJ
Received 16 Jun 201467 Station Street Donington
Received 1 Mar 2002Red Roofs Dowsdale Bank Crowland PE6 0NF
Received 12 Mar 201313 WINSOVER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1EG
Received 21 Jul 2022Midway Cottage Beck Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QN
Received 18 Aug 200038 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0EP
Received 11 Oct 2023Sycamore Farm Holbeach Road Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6JP
Received 17 Jun 2024Adjacent to 23 Reservoir Road Surfleet Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 4DH
Received 18 Jul 2025Off Pennygate Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Sept 2000Chestnut Farm Seas End Road Moulton
Received 16 Mar 2006Mallard Hurn (Field no. 2446) Mallard Drove Donington Spalding
Received 11 Sept 1997Seajoy Haycroft Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8LB
Received 15 Aug 201112 Patriot Close Spalding Lincs PE11 1YA
Received 10 Mar 2003Budgens Store (formerly Somerfield) 5 Fleet Road Holbeach PE12 8LA
Received 1 Apr 2009RUSTIC LODGE 36 LITTLE COMMON HOLBEACH CLOUGH SPALDING PE12 8BL
Received 30 Aug 2022Unit 1 35 Little London Spalding
Received 1 Oct 20081 St Benedict Close Crowland Spalding Lincs PE6 0NW
Received 26 Feb 1992KINGSWOOD 27 SPALDING ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7HG
Received 10 Oct 201618 Market Street Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9DF
Received 9 Jan 2013Land to the East of Chaffinch Way Holbeach Spalding
Received 2 Jun 2021Dorittchy Joys Bank Holbeach St John Spalding
Received 8 Jan 2004Records 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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