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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.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of City of Lincoln Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Lincoln website
19,280 approved · 1,752 refused · 753 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Lincoln Ymca Ltd, St. Rumbold Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5AR
Received 24 Nov 2000Burton Menswear, 303 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7DR
Received 24 Nov 200011 Syston Grove, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8TJ
Received 22 Nov 20001 Cherry Grove, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0HE
Received 11 Jan 2001Thomas Mawer & Son, 63 Monks Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5HP
Received 23 Nov 2000104 Yarborough Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3LX
Received 31 Oct 200067 South Park, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8ES
Received 16 Oct 20001 St. Giles Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4PE
Received 9 Nov 20005 Wedgewood Grove, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3LT
Received 6 Oct 20001 Malham Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0XD
Received 2 Oct 20005 Malvern Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8SU
Received 25 Oct 2000National Westminster Bank Plc, 225 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AZ
Received 25 Apr 2001117/119A Burton Road, Lincoln.
Received 22 Feb 20014 Haddon Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7YF
Received 11 Apr 2000Former B.O.C Ltd, 1 Dixon Way, Lincoln
Received 14 Feb 200033 Sincil Street, Lincoln
Received 18 Jan 2000British Rail, Central Railway Station, St. Marys Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7EW
Received 21 Dec 199989 Sincil Bank, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7TQ
Received 3 Nov 2000290 Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0EX
Received 13 Nov 2000City Hall, Beaumont Fee, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1DB
Received 24 Oct 2000Bowling Green, 324 Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4QD
Received 16 Sept 1999Tesco Stores Ltd, Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4QQ
Received 20 Aug 200148 Nocton Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 2AG
Received 15 Aug 2001Burton Menswear, 303 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7DR
Received 16 Aug 2001Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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