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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
18,633 approved · 1,692 refused · 717 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 1998 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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19 Woodvale Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3RL
Received 8 Jun 200131 Higgins Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0RL
Received 29 May 200130 Shaftesbury Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0QN
Received 8 Jun 200144 Baker Crescent, Doddington Park, Lincoln LN6 Orn
Received 6 Jun 2001The Moorlands Club Ltd, Newark Road, Lincoln, LN6 8RT
Received 12 Jun 20016 Mallard Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0RQ
Received 12 Jun 200116 Ash Close, Lincoln LN6 Oru
Received 12 Jun 2001256 Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0ER
Received 6 Jun 2001JTF Wholesale, Greetwell Road, Lincoln.
Received 4 Jun 20013 Cottesford Place, James Street, Lincoln
Received 29 May 2001The Unitarian Chapel, Corner Of High Street/Monson Street, Lincoln
Received 24 May 2001Phase 1 Land South Of Bunkers Hill, Hawthorn Road, And East Of Outer Circle Road.
Received 5 Dec 2000104 Grange Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8DA
Received 1 Dec 2000Post Office Counters Ltd, Swanpool Post Office, 241 Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0ET
Received 18 Dec 2000238-244 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AT
Received 6 Dec 2000Eastgate Bowls Tennis & Squash Club, Langworthgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AD
Received 16 Jan 2001Bunkers Hill, Hawthorn Road And Outer Circle Road, Lincoln.
Received 14 Nov 2000Straits Wine Bar, 8 & 9 The Strait, Lincoln
Received 15 Nov 2000Workingmans Club, 241-247 Monks Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5JT
Received 14 Nov 2000The Aquarium, 40 Monks Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5HY
Received 14 Nov 20007 Durham Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0QG
Received 13 Nov 2000Former Tavern Building, Deacon Road, Lincoln.
Received 9 Nov 2000Land Opposite Nos. 17-37 Milman Road & North Of Monks Abbey School
Received 18 Sept 2000Land Off Greetwell Road And Adjacent To Greetwell Close.
Received 23 Aug 2000Records 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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