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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
19,268 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Poundstretchers Ltd, 233-237, High Street, Lincoln, LN2 1AT
Received 1 Jun 1998233-237 High Street, Lincoln.
Received 1 Jun 1998Beaumont Lodge And Cottage, Beaumont Fee
Received 3 Jul 1998Ex Comet Unit 7, Tritton Retail Park
Received 29 May 199819 Remigius Grove, Lincoln, LN2 4QJ
Received 29 May 1998Former Allotments Between Wolsey Way And Goldsmith Walk
Received 19 May 1998Plot 18 Higgins Close Off Fulmar Road (Number 21)
Received 14 May 199841 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 8AS
Received 8 Jun 1998Plot 18 Higgins Close Off Fulmar Road Lincoln. (Number 21)
Received 27 Jan 1999Plot 18 Higgins Close, Off Fulmar Road Lincoln (Number 21)
Received 27 Jan 199930 Somersby Close, Lincoln, LN6 8AF
Received 15 May 1998Skellingthorpe Road, Opposite Hartsholme Park
Received 14 May 19987 Shaftesbury Avenue, Lincoln, LN6 0QN
Received 13 May 1998Plots 25-27 And 76-95 Part 3, Phase 6, Doddington Park, Lincoln
Received 1 May 1998Plots 25-27 And 76-95 Part 3 Phase 6, Doddington Park, Lincoln
Received 1 May 1998Plots 25-27 And 76-95 Part 3, Phase 6, Doddington Park, Lincoln.
Received 1 May 1998Tritton Retail Park, Lincoln
Received 1 May 1998Land To Rear Of 67, 69 And 71 Western Avenue
Received 24 Apr 1998Land Adj. To 38 Long Leys Road, Lincoln.
Received 17 Apr 1998Rhinecourt Ltd, Crofton Road, Allenby Trading Estate, Lincoln, LN3 4N6
Received 16 Apr 1998Site At Boultham Park Health Centre Boultham Park Road
Received 15 Apr 1998North Lincolnshire College, Lincoln Centre, Monks Road, Lincoln, LN2 5HQ
Received 20 Mar 1998Allied Carpets Tritton Retail Park Beevor Way Lincoln
Received 16 Mar 1998Land To Rear Of 115-155 Hykeham Road
Received 27 Feb 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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