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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for City of Lincoln Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
10,136 approved · 567 refused · 339 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jan 2012 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
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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.
13-14 Silver Street Lincoln Lincolnshire
Received 17 Jun 2019Telecommunication Station Bt Telephone Exchange Broadgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AA
Received 18 Jun 20196-7 Castle Hill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AA
Received 18 Jun 201939 Benson Crescent Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3NU
Received 18 Jun 201923 Tudor Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3LL
Received 18 Jun 20196 Trollope Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7LR
Received 18 Jun 2019Lindum House 11 Sewell Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5RY
Received 18 Jun 201924 York Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1LL
Received 18 Jun 20193 Temple Gardens Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1NP
Received 18 Jun 20198 Bank Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1DZ
Received 18 Jun 201968A Park Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1UR
Received 18 Jun 20197 Bank Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1DZ
Received 18 Jun 201912 Deacon Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4JB
Received 19 Jun 201940 Long Leys Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1DP
Received 18 Jun 2019Yew Tree House 32 Nettleham Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1RE
Received 19 Jun 201912 Oakleigh Drive Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1DG
Received 19 Jun 201925 Wedgewood Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3LU
Received 21 Jun 20194 Renfrew Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 9AW
Received 21 Jun 201996 Astwick Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7LL
Received 24 Jun 2019142 Yarborough Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3NQ
Received 24 Jun 2019114 Skellingthorpe Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7QX
Received 24 Jun 2019Land Between 25 And 41 Gaunt Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7PX
Received 24 Jun 2019Markham House 73-75 Swift Gardens Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4ND
Received 24 Jun 2019Wordsworth House 205 Yarborough Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3NQ
Received 25 Jun 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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.
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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 City of Lincoln 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.
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