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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
17,359 approved · 1,539 refused · 664 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
155 Hykeham Road Lincoln LN6 8AD
Received 2 Mar 2006Land To Rear Of 61 Yarborough Road Lincoln LN1 1HS
Received 2 Mar 2006Brantley Manor Brant Road Lincoln LN5 8RX
Received 28 Feb 2006Garages 1-8 Mill Lane, Lincoln.
Received 7 Mar 20063 Ashworth Close Lincoln LN6 7HN
Received 23 Feb 2006Land Adjacent To 56 Winn Street Lincoln LN2 5EU
Received 27 Feb 2006Land At The Manor House, Ancaster Avenue, Lincoln, LN2 4AY.
Received 24 Feb 2006Land Adjacent To 2 Olsen Rise, Lincoln, LN2 4UZ.
Received 2 Mar 2006Plots 11 - 13 Zone C And D, Sobraon Barracks, Dunkirk Road, Lincoln.
Received 10 Feb 2006Lancaster House, Orchard Street, Lincoln, LN1 1YZ
Received 3 Feb 200612 And 14 The Sidings (Units G & H, St Marks Retail Park), Lincoln
Received 13 Jan 20065 Cornhill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7HE
Received 17 Jan 20065 Cornhill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7HE
Received 10 Jan 200617 Tempest Street Lincoln LN2 5NB
Received 31 Jan 200648 Brancaster Drive Lincoln LN6 7UF
Received 3 Jan 2006Land To The Rear Of 41 - 69 Hykeham Road, Lincoln, LN6 8AA
Received 3 Jan 2006Land To The Rear Of 41 - 69 Hykeham Road, Lincoln, LN6 8AA
Received 3 Jan 2006Hayes Wharf, Carholme Road, Lincoln, LN1 1RS
Received 27 Jan 2006Geoffrey Church Building Lindum Road, Lincoln, LN1 1RS
Received 21 Dec 200535 Alexandra Terrace Lincoln LN1 1JF
Received 5 Jan 2006Post Office Counters Ltd, Swanpool Post Office, 241 Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln, LN6 0ET
Received 19 Dec 20054-6 Mint Street, 17 & 18 Guildhall Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1TR
Received 16 May 2007Land South Of Bunkers Hill And Hawthorn Road And East Of Outer Circle Road, Lincoln.
Received 5 Apr 2006Car Park, 256/258 Wragby Road, Lincoln
Received 14 Dec 2005Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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