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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for City of Lincoln Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
11,421 approved · 635 refused · 370 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Jan 2010 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Lilford Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4TP
Received 14 Jan 202217 Clive Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7UJ
Received 14 Jan 202229 Church Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1QR
Received 14 Jan 202228 Church Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1QR
Received 14 Jan 202237 Cottesmore Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3RH
Received 17 Jan 20222 Lawn Cottages Castle Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3BH
Received 18 Jan 2022Redlands 1 Doddington Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7EN
Received 18 Jan 20226 Abingdon Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3UH
Received 18 Jan 202234 St Catherines Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8LY
Received 18 Jan 20222 Foxes Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7AJ
Received 18 Jan 20228-12 St Martins Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1HY
Received 19 Jan 2022294 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1AH
Received 19 Jan 2022Hartsholme Country Park Dam Wall Hartsholme Park Lincoln Lincolnshire
Received 19 Jan 2022Unit 6 Corn Exchange Building Cornhill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7HE
Received 20 Jan 2022Unit 6 Corn Exchange Building Cornhill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7HE
Received 20 Jan 2022Land To The Rear Of 116 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7PR
Received 21 Jan 2022373 Skellingthorpe Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0PA
Received 21 Jan 2022505 Newark Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 8RT
Received 21 Jan 20227A Greetwell Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4AQ
Received 21 Jan 202283 Ruskin Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4DE
Received 24 Jan 2022Site Of Former Windmill Pine Beevor Street Lincoln Lincolnshire
Received 24 Jan 202224 Burns Gardens Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4LJ
Received 24 Jan 202249 Cottesmore Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3RH
Received 17 Jan 2022123 Canwick Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8EY
Received 24 Jan 2022Records 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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