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
37,480 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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.
16 LADYWOOD ROAD SPALDING PE11 2DA
Received 5 Sept 2022Plot 2, Station Road Surfleet Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Dec 1998Leon and adjacent house Roman Bank Lutton Gowts Spalding PE12 9LQ
Received 21 Aug 201590 Park Road Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Nov 2000Land associated with Fendyke Farm Sutton St James Spalding PE12 0LX
Received 20 Feb 2013Rear of 59 & 61 Postland Road and 59 Postland Road Crowland PE6 0JB
Received 18 Dec 202336 WEST PARADE SPALDING PE11 1HD
Received 11 Dec 2015Riverdale West Marsh Road Spalding
Received 7 Aug 2001Mill House, Fleet Bank Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jan 1997Adj 4 Clay Drove Spalding Lincolnshire PE11 3NB
Received 26 Mar 20254 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1EH
Received 6 Dec 2016Roffes Catering Bells Drove Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0JG
Received 28 May 2010Johnson Avenue/Bowditch Road Spalding
Received 5 May 1995Plot 32 Hawthorn Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Nov 19914 NEW ROAD SPALDING PE11 1BS
Received 7 Jun 2022Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding PE12 0TN
Received 18 Aug 2025Wykeham House, Marsh Road Spalding Lincs
Received 24 Oct 199742 BROADGATE WESTON SPALDING PE12 6HY
Received 28 Aug 2014Aalsmeer Rise (Plots 10a, 11) (Phase 7) Holland Park Spalding Lincs PE11 3JD
Received 26 Aug 1992Percheron Lodge Gull House Farm Deeping High Bank Spalding Lincs PE11 3DY
Received 4 Jun 2010Land off Hawthorn Bank Spalding
Received 18 Jan 2005Rose Villa Gipsy Lane Gedney Spalding
Received 17 Mar 2023Lime House Dawsmere Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PN
Received 6 Dec 2005The Sycamores Westgate Moulton Chapel
Received 14 Jan 2002Records 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