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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
37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Adj 107 Bourne Road Spalding
Received 19 May 2003Anne Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9TB
Received 22 May 199865 Clough Road Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4JW
Received 8 Mar 2013Moulton Bulb Company Long Lane Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PP
Received 3 Dec 2019Safeway Develpment Site The Holland Markets Swan Street Spalding Lincs
Received 21 Mar 1995Play Barn Fesitval Gardens Springfields Outlet Shopping Camelgate Spalding
Received 30 Jun 2004Orchard Farm Plot 4 Dowsdale Bank Shepeau Stow Spalding PE12 0UA
Received 16 Aug 2024WITS END LEADENHALL ROAD HOLBEACH ST MARKS SPALDING PE12 8EY
Received 4 Dec 2024Adj. to Mortimer The Raceground Spalding Common Spalding Lincs PE11 3AP
Received 6 Dec 2017102 HIGH ROAD WESTON SPALDING PE12 6RA
Received 2 Aug 201912 Mayfair Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 2UG
Received 17 Sept 2007Adjacent Willow House Church End Gedney Spalding PE12 0BU
Received 12 May 20161 Middle Crown Farm Grange Road Terrington St Clement Kings Lynn
Received 27 Feb 1997278 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Nov 2002Westholme 32 West End Holbeach Spalding
Received 7 Mar 2025Land off Cross Road Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 1996The Old School Postland Road Crowland
Received 4 Dec 2018Fleet Wood Lane School Wood Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Jul 20011 Washway Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6LP
Received 14 Mar 201810 LITTLE LONDON LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9LE
Received 7 Sept 2020EX ALPHA MATERIALS HANDLING SITE RAVENS GATE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RD
Received 17 May 2016ST MATTHEWS CHURCH BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SD
Received 3 Apr 2019Oakview Northgate West Pinchbeck
Received 24 Apr 20074 Harford Gate Gedney Broadgate Spalding Lincs PE12 0DF
Received 24 May 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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