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
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bowlers Rest 50 Mole Drove Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PA
Received 21 Jun 2018Short Drove West Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 13 Aug 19927 Bridge Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1XF
Received 6 Jul 2009Main Road Gedney Drove End
Received 4 Nov 2005Bridge Farm Nurseries Horseshoe Bridge Horseshoe Road Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Aug 1995Land Adj. 2 Home Farm Cottage Gedney Dawsmere Holbeach Spalding
Received 29 Jul 1996Off Church Lane Lutton Spalding PE12 9NU
Received 29 Jun 2017Land fronting: Kirk Gate Whaplode Spalding PE12 6TE
Received 21 Oct 2016The Hollows Quadring Eaudyke Spalding Lincs PE11 4QB
Received 20 Oct 2014Stockwell Gate Holbeach Spalding
Received 21 Sept 202146 West Street Crowland Peterborough
Received 25 Jul 20131 Bedford Place Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Sept 1997DENTAL PRACTICE 42 - 44 HIGH STREET GOSBERTON SPALDING PE11 4NJ
Received 23 Oct 2020Adj 323 Broadgate Sutton St Edmund
Received 17 Jul 2003Treetops Millgate Road Whaplode St Catherines Spalding Lincs PE12 6SF
Received 17 Jan 1994114 Spalding Road Holbeach Spalding PE12 7HJ
Received 3 May 201611 West Street Crowland Peterborough PE6 0EE
Received 1 Aug 1996The Old Mill, Roman Road Moulton Chapel Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Mar 1999Small Drove Lane West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NL
Received 10 Jan 2019The Black Horse Siltside Gosberton Risegate Nr. Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jul 2000West Cobgate Moulton
Received 30 Mar 2006Lenesta Church End Fleet Spalding PE12 8NQ
Received 11 May 2012FOREST LODGE CHURCH END GEDNEY SPALDING PE12 0BU
Received 30 Jul 2014Land adj Wykeham Cottage 17 Chapelgate Whaplode Drove
Received 25 Mar 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