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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37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gore Lane Spalding
Received 4 Feb 2004SYCAMORES BACK BANK WHAPLODE DROVE SPALDING PE12 0TT
Received 22 Aug 2019Greenways 26 West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PL
Received 21 Dec 2020Lofty Potts East Bank Wingland Sutton Bridge
Received 11 Jul 2005The Ship Albion Inn 37 Albion Street Spalding Lincs PE11 2AJ
Received 17 Sept 200957 BROADWAY CROWLAND SPALDING PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BH
Received 19 Jun 2015Bridge Farm Nursery Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs PE11 3BE
Received 28 Jul 1997Tretton Manor Farm Lowgate Tydd St Giles Wisbech PE13 5PD
Received 29 May 200339 Church Street Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UA
Received 16 Sept 2008Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 12 Feb 1996Roman Bank Holbeach Bank Spalding
Received 23 May 2001PARK FARM COTTAGE DOZENS BANK WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3ND
Received 29 Jun 2026Vernatts Bungalow Reservoir Road Surfleet Seas End
Received 13 Jul 200783 BACKGATE COWBIT SPALDING PE12 6AP
Received 5 Aug 201534 Wedgewood Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 12 May 200557 Days Lane Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XT
Received 22 Jun 2011Priory House and 4 The Crescent Spalding PE11 1AB
Received 12 May 2004Yates Seeds, Chapel Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 17 Sept 1997Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 28 Apr 2006Woodhouse Holbeach Road Spalding Lincs PE12 6JP
Received 7 Sept 2004Land on Buttercup Paddock opposite Cobgate Churchgate, Whaplode Spalding Lincs
Received 5 Feb 200110 Orchard Way Cowbit Spalding, Lincs PE12 6XA
Received 22 Apr 199911A London Road Long Sutton
Received 3 Aug 200717-21 Winsover Road Spalding PE11 1EG
Received 15 Sept 2016Records 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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