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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19,268 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Land At Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln
Received 27 Feb 1998Land To North Of Skellingthorpe Road Opposite Hartsholme Country Park
Received 3 Mar 1998St. Andrews & Newland United Reformed Church, Garmston Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1HZ
Received 3 Dec 1999Carpetright, 14 The Sidings, Lincoln.
Received 7 Dec 1999Plot 17 Higgins Close, Off Fulmar Road, Lincoln. (Number 23)
Received 17 Sept 1999Birchwood Grange Off Meadowlake Crescent
Received 19 Jun 1998Binns Ltd, 226-231, High Street, Lincoln, LN2 1AY
Received 30 Jun 199812 Almond Avenue, Lincoln, LN6 0HB
Received 7 Jul 1998375 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 7RY
Received 24 Feb 1998Land East Of Hykeham Road
Received 19 Feb 1998Land East Of Hykeham Road
Received 19 Feb 1998Land To Rear Of 115-155 Hykeham Road
Received 19 Feb 1998Land To Rear Of 115-155 Hykeham Road
Received 19 Feb 1998Land To Rear Of 115-155 Hykeham Road
Received 19 Feb 1998105-109 Burton Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3LL
Received 16 Feb 1998Upper Lindum Street
Received 10 Feb 199865 High Street, Lincoln
Received 11 Mar 1998233, 235 & 237 High Street
Received 5 Feb 199833 Cross O'Cliff Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8PR
Received 26 Jul 1999British Telecom, Broadgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5AA
Received 27 Dec 2000Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd, Superstore, Moorland Way, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7JW
Received 17 May 1999Plot 13 Higgins Close Fulmar Road Lincoln (Number 31)
Received 13 May 1999233-237 High Street Shop Unit 3
Received 30 Oct 19982, 3, 3A Moorland Close, Lindis Retail Park, Tritton Road, Lincoln
Received 31 Jul 1998Records 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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