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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
High Fen View Chopdyke Drove Gosberton Clough
Received 7 Jul 2004Windcatch 11 Kellet Gate Low Fulney Spalding Lincs PE12 6EH
Received 24 Feb 2006Ash Court Spalding PE11 2HH
Received 6 Mar 20156 Juniper Crescent Spalding Lincs PE12 6FD
Received 14 Nov 2008Austendyke Road Weston Hills Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 1995Northgate Garage Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3SE
Received 15 Aug 2018AN HENDRA COMMON DROVE CROWLAND PE6 0HL
Received 22 Jun 20224-12 Church Street Donington
Received 4 Mar 20083 Shivean Gate Moulton Spalding Lincs PE12 6PL
Received 19 Apr 2013'Fourwinds', Common Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Mar 1998Lansdowne Court Roman Bank Spalding
Received 6 Feb 2007Gedney Hill Golf Club West Drove Gedney Hill
Received 10 Apr 200723 London Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 23 Nov 2005Midfield Nursery 12 West Drove North Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PL
Received 3 Feb 2012Norwood House 169 High Road Whaplode
Received 30 Jun 2004DUNCAN AND TOPLIS ENTERPRISE WAY PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3YR
Received 1 Apr 2016St John Baptist Va Primary School Hawthorn Bank Spalding PE11 1JQ
Received 5 Dec 2023E and S Forklift Sales Malting Lane Donington Spalding
Received 10 Jun 2013Land adjacent "Little Meadow" 61 Lutton Marsh Long Sutton Spalding, Lincs
Received 16 Nov 19934 Spalding Road Gosberton Spalding Lincs PE11 4NP
Received 22 Sept 2004Methodist Church Station Road Surfleet
Received 10 Sept 2001Centenary Way Wingland Enterprise Park Sutton Bridge
Received 4 Nov 2004Adj. Rosedene 10 Mill Lane Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TP
Received 17 Apr 2023North View Haycroft Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8LB
Received 20 Apr 2010Records 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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