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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 7 Jun 200412 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs, PE11 3JP
Received 2 May 19955 Vicarage Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AF
Received 17 Oct 2006SILOAM 254 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4JR
Received 19 Aug 2024The Mill Mill Lane Gedney Hill Spalding Lincs PE12 0PW
Received 16 Aug 2010UNIVERSITY ACADEMY LONG SUTTON 84 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LF
Received 8 Dec 201928 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs PE11 2BH
Received 15 Feb 2011Town Drove Quadring
Received 12 Apr 2002Tysdale Manor Common Way Tydd St Mary Wisbech PE13 5QH
Received 27 Sept 2010Phase 1 Distributor Road Off Bourne Road Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jun 1998170 Guys Head Road Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QQ
Received 9 Sept 201614 ST GUTHLACS CLOSE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0ES
Received 18 Dec 202469 New Road Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 22 Oct 199117 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NW
Received 1 Jun 2022Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Feb 1998Land east: Durhams Road Wiles Farm Durham Road Spalding PE12 9NJ
Received 14 Jun 201717 MALTING LANE DONINGTON SPALDING LINCOLNSHIRE PE11 4XA
Received 28 Jan 201441 Park Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 3 May 19942 Holborns Site Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Jun 2000Adjacent 29 Delph Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9BX
Received 13 Jul 20176 Coalbeach Lane South Surfleet Spalding Lincs PE11 4DE
Received 25 Feb 2011MANOR HOUSE 1 BELL LANE MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6PQ
Received 6 Jan 202024 Wisbech Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AG
Received 19 Apr 2013Birds Drove Surfleet Spalding PE11 4BE
Received 7 May 2014Records 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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