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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
19,227 approved · 1,744 refused · 748 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Crown Court, The Castle, Castle Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AA
Received 14 Jul 1999Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AX
Received 7 Jul 19994 Goldcrest Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0UX
Received 18 May 2001First Choice, 171 High Street, Lincoln
Received 10 Aug 200129 Newland, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1XP
Received 9 Jan 20014 Nettleham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1RE
Received 8 Jan 2001Aqua House, Harvey Street, Lincoln
Received 8 Jan 20015 East Bight, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1QH
Received 2 Oct 20005 East Bight, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1QH
Received 2 Oct 2000Land Between Smith Street And Sewells Walk (Former Avoiding Line East Of High Street).
Received 20 Nov 2000327 Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3XD
Received 7 Feb 200074 Woodfield Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0LP
Received 4 Feb 2000344 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7DQ
Received 4 Feb 200050 Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4PQ
Received 2 Feb 2000Ravendale Sports Field, Ravendale Drive.
Received 18 Feb 2000127 Hykeham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8AD
Received 2 Feb 20003 Wedgewood Grove, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3LT
Received 2 Feb 200053 Hartsholme Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0HF
Received 7 Feb 2000Jackson Fabrics, 264 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1HW
Received 12 Aug 1999Land Off Western Avenue, Lincoln
Received 16 Jun 1999Yarborough Road Allotment Site, Yarborough Road.
Received 6 Jul 1999Save Petrol, Broadgate, Lincoln, LN2 5AQ
Received 2 Jul 1999The Paddock, Westbrooke Road, Lincoln
Received 29 Jun 1999Our Price, 195 & 195A High Street
Received 23 Jun 1999Records 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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