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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19,227 approved · 1,744 refused · 748 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
74 Doddington Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7EU
Received 21 Jun 1999Plot No. 7 Hawthorn Road, Bunkers Hill, Lincoln.
Received 21 Jun 1999Rear Of 22 Sausthorpe Street, Lincoln
Received 22 Jun 1999Lincoln School Of Science & Technology, Cross O'Cliff Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8PW
Received 10 Aug 199920 Eastgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AA
Received 18 Jun 1999Outbuilding To The Rear Of 42 Kesteven Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7LH
Received 14 Jun 1999The Lawn Centre, Union Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3BJ
Received 10 Jun 1999New Life Christian Fellowship, Newland, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1XG
Received 9 Jun 1999Railway Land And Towpath From NKDC/City Boundary To University.
Received 26 May 1999Tower Hotel, 185 Carholme Road
Received 7 Jun 19995 Cornhill, Lincoln.
Received 4 Jun 1999Land West Of Kwik Fit, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln
Received 24 May 1999Land West Of Kwik Fit, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln
Received 24 May 1999Land West Of Kwik Fit, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln
Received 24 May 199911 Corporation Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1HL
Received 27 May 1999Lindum Sports Association Ltd, St. Giles Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4PE
Received 27 May 1999British Rail, Central Railway Station, St. Marys Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7EW
Received 27 May 1999British Rail, Central Railway Station, St. Marys Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7EW
Received 27 May 1999Land North West Of Lincoln Road
Received 25 May 1999Lincoln City Council, General Depot, Waterside South, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7JD
Received 24 May 1999Plot 21 (No. 15) Higgins Close
Received 13 May 1999Land Adjoining 41 Hungate
Received 13 May 1999St Giles Post Office, 246 Wragby Road, Lincoln
Received 10 May 1999Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd, 15 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8BE
Received 10 May 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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