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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
19,280 approved · 1,754 refused · 753 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
29 Grosvenor Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0XT
Received 26 May 20099 Eleanor Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8PG
Received 20 May 200922 Cottage Paddock Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7EB
Received 24 Feb 2009Lindum House 11 Sewell Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5RY
Received 20 Feb 200920 Drury Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3BN
Received 20 Feb 2009Lakelands House Uldale Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0XB
Received 27 Feb 20098 Shaftesbury Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0QN
Received 16 Feb 20098 Goldcrest Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0UX
Received 26 Nov 200842 Langworthgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4AD
Received 10 Feb 200914 Carline Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1HG
Received 10 Feb 200910 Almond Avenue, Lincoln, LN6 0HB
Received 6 Feb 200910 Almond Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0HB
Received 6 Feb 200913 Grosvenor Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0XT
Received 9 Feb 200929 Swanholme Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3DE
Received 3 Feb 2009Land To The Rear Of 39 Burghley Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7YE
Received 21 Jan 2009Car Park Swan Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1LF
Received 14 Jan 200935 Langworthgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4AD
Received 6 Jan 200910 Ashlin Grove Lincoln LN1 1LE
Received 6 Jan 20098 Hartsholme Drive Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0HF
Received 6 Jan 200946 Colegrave Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8DR
Received 6 Jan 200930 Rochester Drive Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0XJ
Received 19 Dec 2008The Castle, Castle Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AA
Received 4 Dec 200828 Wragby Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4PD
Received 15 Dec 200874 Abingdon Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3LE
Received 3 Dec 2008Records 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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