Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Long Sutton County Primary School Dick Turpin Way Long Sutton, Spalding
Received 14 Jun 1993Anfield Barns Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3NL
Received 1 Jul 1997Milestone Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 9 May 2000Belnie Lane Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 30 Oct 2000South Holland Centre Market Place Spalding
Received 3 Sept 2007"The Caravan" Woodlands Nursery Boston Road, Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1992Rear of "Unitas Villa" Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Sept 1992Moulton Chapel Primary School Eaugate Road Moulton Chapel Spalding PE12 0XJ
Received 13 Dec 2013Rear of Station House Hallgate Fleet Spalding PE12 8NG
Received 3 Jul 2020South View Community Primary School Abbey 345 Playgroup Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JA
Received 5 Apr 2022Beech Lodge Frogs Abbeygate Holbeach St Johns
Received 30 Nov 2006Land adjacent Mill Lodge Mill Lane Tydd St Mary Wisbech
Received 19 May 1992Pt. O.S. No. 9558, Lowgate Gedney Spalding Lincs
Received 10 Jun 1993Plots 338 and 349 Giles Road and Piccard Drive Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 2009ROSE LODGE WHALE DROVE WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 0UB
Received 1 Apr 2016Marlowe Farm 57 Malting Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4XA
Received 18 Jul 20121 SILTSIDE GOSBERTON RISEGATE SPALDING PE11 4ET
Received 13 May 2024Adj. 41 Little London Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 9 Nov 2000Woolhall Farm Wykeham Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 2003Opposite 97 Dog Drove North Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0SA
Received 11 Aug 2009Bank House Farm, Bensgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 31 Jan 1997Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding
Received 22 Mar 1993LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC 15 MARKET PLACE SPALDING PE11 1SF
Received 27 Oct 20252 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1EJ
Received 28 Sept 2010Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage