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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
17,196 approved · 1,516 refused · 660 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2001 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
65 High Street Lincoln LN5 8AD
Received 28 Jun 2007First Floor, Suite 1, 2 And 3 The Carlton Centre, Carlton Boulevard, Lincoln.
Received 18 Jun 2007Land To The Rear Of 12 Hawthorn Road Lincoln LN2 4QX
Received 18 Jun 2007Staples, 8 Tritton Retail Park, Tritton Road Lincoln LN5 7AN
Received 10 Jul 2007Lowfields Infant School 248 Calder Road Lincoln LN5 9TL
Received 14 Jun 2007Land Adjacent To 48 Nettleham Road, Lincoln
Received 13 Jun 2007Land Adjacent To 2 Lake View Road Lincoln LN6 7QB
Received 13 Jun 2007Land To North West Of Nettleham Road, District Mixed Use Centre, Nettleham Road, Lincoln.
Received 29 May 2007Brayford Enterprise Park, Ruston Way, Lincoln, Lincs, LN6 7DQ.
Received 30 May 20072 Cornhill Lincoln LN5 7HE
Received 2 Aug 20072 Cornhill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7HE
Received 17 May 2007Land To The Rear Of 52 Bunkers Hill Lincoln LN2 4QP
Received 1 May 2007142 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 7PJ
Received 4 May 2007401 Monks Road Lincoln LN3 4NU
Received 26 Apr 2007Lincoln Lowfields Junior School, Calder Road, Lincoln, LN5 9BB.
Received 25 Apr 2007Boundary Garage, Brant Road Lincoln LN5 9AF
Received 23 Apr 2007Ravendale Sports Ground, Ravendale Drive, Lincoln, LN2 2JN
Received 27 Apr 200711 Crofton Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN3 4NL
Received 23 Mar 200743 Hykeham Road Lincoln LN6 8AA
Received 20 Mar 2007Land To The Rear Of 41-73 Hykeham Road, Lincoln
Received 19 Mar 2007Charlotte House, The Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln LN1 3BJ
Received 15 Mar 2007Charlotte House, The Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln.
Received 15 Mar 2007The Coach House Weir Street Lincoln LN5 8DU
Received 5 Jul 2007Choices The Carlton Centre, Carlton Boulevard Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4WJ
Received 4 May 2007Records 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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