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
37,172 approved · 4,540 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Broadway Crowland Peterborough
Received 31 Mar 2000Pt OS. 1661, Mill Marsh Road Moulton Seas End Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Dec 1996Oatsheaf House Main Road Deeping St Nicholas Spalding
Received 26 Jun 1998off Fishergate Sutton St James Spalidng PE12 0EZ
Received 1 Aug 201955 STATION ROAD SURFLEET SPALDING PE11 4DB
Received 22 Nov 202134 West End Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LW
Received 17 May 2013Lockwoods Factory Bridge Road Little Sutton Spalding
Received 16 Oct 1991Stonegate Cowbit Spalding PE12 6AJ
Received 29 Aug 2013Gleed Girls Grant Maintained School Neville Avenue Spalding
Received 8 Oct 1992St John the Baptist CE Primary School Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 9 Aug 2006Holmfield King John Bank Walpole St Andrew Wisbech PE14 7JT
Received 4 Mar 201375-77 Church Street Pinchbeck
Received 21 Apr 200624 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Apr 1998Former Network Rail Depot (on land to the North of Kings Road) Kings Road Spalding Lincs
Received 18 May 2016Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Jul 1993The Laurels Marriots Gate Lutton Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Oct 199379 PRINCES STREET SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9RF
Received 15 Nov 2021Adj 43 Mill Lane Gosberton Spalding PE11 4NN
Received 20 Oct 20261 BEECHFIELD GARDENS SPALDING PE11 1UN
Received 9 Mar 2020Adj. 120 Bells Drove Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0JQ
Received 1 Apr 2022Delph Bank Touring Park Old Main Road Fleet Hargate Spalding PE12 8LL
Received 17 Feb 2026Wood Lane Quadring Eaudyke Spalding Lincs PE11 4PZ
Received 16 Mar 200154 PARK ROAD SPALDING PE11 1NH
Received 27 Aug 201518 Welbeck Drive Spalding Lincs PE11 1PD
Received 5 Jun 2000Records 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