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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
WESTBOURNE LODGE 13 COWBIT ROAD SPALDING PE11 2RD
Received 20 Jan 2015ALMONDBURY BELCHMIRE LANE GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4JA
Received 8 May 2017High Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Mar 1993Donington Cowley Secondary School School Lane Donington Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Nov 1999Fedoryszyn Cold Hurn Lane Gosberton Westhorpe Spalding Lincs PE11 4LH
Received 19 Nov 2010Chestnuts Garden Centre Topsgate Gedney Spalding PE12 0BS
Received 9 Sept 2013Adj 73 Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 9LF
Received 16 Feb 2026Lincolnshire Co-op Long Sutton Food Store West Street Market Place Long Sutton PE12 9BN
Received 28 Aug 2025Norfolk House Farm Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding PE12 9PB
Received 28 Sept 20263-5 Westhorpe Road Gosberton
Received 22 Jun 200512 Beckingham Close Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 2NQ
Received 21 Jan 2026Fernside 1 Bells Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 0JG
Received 19 Aug 2015Barrington Lodge Barrington Gate Holbeach
Received 8 Dec 2003Plot adjacent to Levoir Broadgate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 20015 VICARAGE CLOSE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6XW
Received 26 Jun 2017HOLLYTREE FARM HALL GATE ROAD SUTTON ST EDMUND SPALDING PE12 0LN
Received 10 Jul 2017CELEY HOUSE 4A THE WENTWORTHS LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9RT
Received 20 Jul 2021Land Off Centenary Way/Chalk Lane Wingland Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 25 Jan 2000Main Road Garage Long Sutton Spalding
Received 30 Mar 1992Barrington House Farm Fen Road Holbeach PE12 8QG
Received 22 Sept 200318 20 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 2007Unit 4, Benner Road (Former 'Warmerhome' factory) Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jan 1997Land off Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9HG
Received 21 Sept 20233 CHURCH WALK PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3RD
Received 28 Sept 2017Records 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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