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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
19,278 approved · 1,752 refused · 753 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
45 Middlebrook Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7JU
Received 16 Nov 1998275 Hykeham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8BE
Received 31 Oct 200022 Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4PD
Received 21 Sept 1999Land Between 128 And 140 Burton Road
Received 7 Apr 1999Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd, 239 Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0ET
Received 1 Apr 199990 Mill Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3JH
Received 16 Apr 19991 Boswell Grove, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7LS
Received 29 Mar 1999Papertree Ltd, 6-7 Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7HE
Received 29 Mar 199930 Queensway, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AH
Received 29 Mar 199923 Drury Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3BN
Received 26 Mar 1999Witham Oil & Paint, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln
Received 24 Mar 1999Monty's Bar & Restaurant 78 Canwick Road Lincoln.
Received 19 Feb 19992 Wrightsway, Lincoln, LN2 4JY
Received 22 Jan 1999Alstom Main Works, Newton Street, Lincoln
Received 26 Jan 1999Dragons Health Club, Witham Park House Waterside South
Received 25 Jan 1999Warehouse Building, Laceby Street, Lincoln
Received 16 Nov 1998Footpath/Cycle Track West Side Of River Witham From Dixon St. To Newark Rd.(The Plough P.H. Car Park) Including Altham Terrace, Hall Drive And Boultham Park.
Received 12 Nov 1998Suzi Q 40 Silver Street Lincoln LN2 1EH
Received 29 Jan 1999Land Adjoining Clifton Street/Kesteven Street And Great Northern Terrace.
Received 5 Nov 1998Land Adjoining Clifton Street/Kesteven Street And Great Northern Terrace Lincoln.
Received 5 Nov 19988 Manor Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1RJ
Received 6 Nov 1998Plot 21 Higgins Close (Number 15)
Received 4 Nov 1998453 High Street, Lincoln
Received 27 Nov 199842 Portland Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7JX
Received 28 Oct 1998Records 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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