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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37,667 approved · 4,566 refused · 1,379 withdrawn.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 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
BEECHTHORNE 87 SEAGATE ROAD LONG SUTTON SPALDING PE12 9AD
Received 22 Jul 2015Hagbeach Manor Millgate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6RT
Received 28 Jan 2026Lenmar House Fengate Road Moulton Chapel
Received 2 Jul 2002White House Farm Wisemans Gate Weston Spalding PE12 6JD
Received 8 Jul 201129 Station Road Tydd Gote Wisbech PE13 5QA
Received 4 Dec 2020Hollies Rangell Gate Low Fulney Spalding PE12 6EW
Received 28 Oct 2019St Marks Road Holbeach St Marks Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Apr 2007Adjacent: 1 Bourne Road Spalding PE11 1JN
Received 22 Feb 2016Crossgate Lane/Surfleet Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Aug 1993BROWNS FARM DAWSMERE BANK GEDNEY DAWSMERE SPALDING PE12 9NN
Received 27 Jul 2021Eagle House 104 St Thomas Road Spalding PE11 2YP
Received 1 Aug 201817 Grange Drive Spalding
Received 10 Sept 2003Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding Lincs
Received 1 Apr 1997MALA WALA BIRDS DROVE SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4BE
Received 4 Mar 202226 Matmore Gate Spalding Lincs PE11 2PN
Received 19 Oct 200613 Market Place Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Feb 1992Land adjacent to Highgate Cottage Ropers Gate Gedney Spalding PE12 0DA
Received 18 Dec 2013Land off Wignals Gate Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Mar 2020Stukeley Park Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HG
Received 19 Jun 202345 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Mar 1995Bleak House Farm Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End SPALDING PE12 9NW
Received 28 Dec 201619 Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 28 Nov 2002Spalding Drove Clay Lake Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Jan 199411 BARBERS DROVE NORTH CROWLAND PETERBOROUGH PE6 0BE
Received 30 Jul 2021Records 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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