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37,158 approved · 4,535 refused · 1,372 withdrawn.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: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Beach Bank Farm Beach Bank Surfleet Spalding PE11 4AX
Received 8 Jun 2011Land adj. 16 Stowgate Deeping St James Peterborough
Received 15 Nov 199428 Station Road Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4UQ
Received 5 Feb 1998Boud Marketing Ltd West Bank Sutton Bridge
Received 12 Jun 20068 Maple Grove Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Jun 2003Tydd St Mary Recreational Ground Rectory Road Tydd St Mary Spalding
Received 30 Oct 2024Cackle Hill Farm Boston Road Holbeach
Received 26 Jul 2005Plot 1, Hall Drive Gosberton Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Mar 1992152A Pennygate Spalding
Received 28 Jul 2005Adj. 47 Lime Walk Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jan 1999Foresters Hall Hall Street Crowland PE6 OEW
Received 21 Apr 1995Church House 36 Church Street Donington Spalding PE11 4UA
Received 18 Apr 201236 SURFLEET ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4AG
Received 2 Jul 2020London Road Long Sutton Spalding PE12 9EA
Received 2 Feb 2023184 Fleet Road Fleet Hargate Spalding Lincs PE12 8LE
Received 17 Jul 2018Land at Holbeach Drove Gate Holbeach Drove Spalding Lincs PE12 0RX
Received 16 Oct 2019Seas End Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs PE12 6JX
Received 14 Jul 2010Maisdyke Lane Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8NH
Received 12 May 2010Former Allied Carpets (Also known as Unit 2) Unit B Holland Market Winfrey Avenue Spalding PE11 1RQ
Received 24 May 2013Monmouth Farm Monmouth Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9LH
Received 23 Dec 201327 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Mar 1995THE LIMES 315 HIGH ROAD WHAPLODE SPALDING PE12 6TG
Received 13 Sept 2022J E PICCAVER NOOK FARM HUNDREDS LANE LONG SUTTON PE12 9AJ
Received 3 Jun 2014Sheppards Drove and Hundreds Road Crowland Peterborough
Received 11 Feb 2011Records 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