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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
37,661 approved · 4,565 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Mallard Road Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6ND
Received 13 Jun 2024Red Cow Hotel High Street Donington Spalding
Received 8 Dec 202047 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 16 May 200891 Six House Bank Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs. PE11 3QG
Received 20 May 200375 WOODLANDS LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LZ
Received 22 Apr 2024'Highfields', 61A High Road Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 May 1996BEECH LODGE NURSING HOME FROGS ABBEY GATE HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 8QJ
Received 1 Apr 20267 Church Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Nov 20007 Wyche Avenue The Chase Crowland PE6 0LL
Received 14 Mar 2008Adjacent 3 Baulkins Drove Sutton St James PE12 0JX
Received 25 May 2004Elsom House Broad Street Spalding
Received 10 Sept 20037 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Oct 2006L C C Social Services The Vista Spalding PE11 2RA
Received 15 Aug 202511 Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LE
Received 29 Oct 1991RED LION HOTEL MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SU
Received 25 Mar 20229 Broad Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Mar 2004Off Langwith Drive (adj. 2 Langwith Drive) Holbeach Spalding Lincolnshire
Received 4 Oct 199910 Plank Drove Crowland Peterborough PE6 0BY
Received 20 Jul 1994Land off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Sept 1997Herdgate Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 2006Casa Grande Chapelgate Gedney
Received 14 Dec 2006Land West of Malting Lane Donington Spalding
Received 17 Nov 2020Land off Surfleet Bank (OS. 4870 & 4462) Surfleet Spalding
Received 6 Nov 1996Tom Thumb Nursery Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 10 Dec 1992Records 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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