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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
17,714 approved · 1,584 refused · 676 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Lincoln School Of Science & Technology, Cross O'Cliff Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8PW
Received 3 Jun 2003Land Between 9 And 11 And Land Adjacent To 12 Chivenor Close, Lincoln
Received 2 Jul 2003Stoneacre Garage Dixon Street Lincoln LN6 7DA
Received 19 May 2003133 Boultham Park Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7SE
Received 14 May 2003Land Adjacent To Pike Drain
Received 12 May 2003189 Monks Road, Lincoln.
Received 12 May 2003Wendy Hut, Greestone Centre, Lindum Road, Lincoln.
Received 14 May 200315 Winthorpe Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3PQ
Received 8 May 200397 Grange Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8BY
Received 7 May 200329 Bailgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AP
Received 6 May 2003Land West Of 9 Otters Cottages, Newark Road, Lincoln.
Received 1 May 20036, Fulbeck House, Turner Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7NQ
Received 9 May 200337 Hartsholme Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0HF
Received 15 May 200315-17, Portland Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7JZ
Received 17 Apr 2003The Central Methodist Church, High Street, Lincoln
Received 15 Apr 2003176 St. Catherines Grove, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8ND
Received 14 Apr 2003Land Adjacent To 24 Cottage Paddock, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7EB
Received 11 Apr 20031A, Gibbeson Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8JP
Received 10 Apr 2003Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AX
Received 30 Apr 2003238-244, High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AT
Received 3 Apr 20031 Chippendale Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3PP
Received 11 Apr 2003Moorlands Club, Newark Road, Lincoln, LN6 8RT
Received 1 Apr 2003Land Adj Acent To 37 Wolsey Way, Lincoln
Received 11 Mar 2003Lincoln Minster School, Hillside, Lindum Terrace, Lincoln
Received 10 Mar 2003Records 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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