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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.
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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
19,283 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former Wesleyan School And Land To The Rear Of Former School, Rosemary Lane/Friars Lane, Lincoln.
Received 7 May 2003Former Wesleyan School And Land To The Rear Of Former School, Rosemary Lane/Friars Lane, Lincoln
Received 7 May 2003Land To The Rear Of 1 Branston Close, Gregg Hall Estate, Lincoln
Received 6 May 2003Abbey Building Lincoln College Abbey Street/Cathedral Street, Lincoln.
Received 1 May 2003160 Hykeham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8AW
Received 9 Apr 200321 Glenarm Crescent Lincoln LN5 9TX
Received 9 Apr 2003Land At Schoeffer House, 242 Woodfield Avenue, Lincoln, LN6 0LT
Received 8 Apr 2003Lincoln College, Monks Road, Lincoln, LN2 5HQ
Received 9 Apr 20038 Rydal Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0XZ
Received 2 Apr 2003Burton Road Methodist Church, Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3LW
Received 31 Mar 2003St. Hughs Primary School, Woodfield Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0SH
Received 11 Mar 2003Land At Pershore Way & Birchwood Avenue, Lincoln.
Received 21 Mar 200339 Finningley Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0UQ
Received 5 Mar 2003Former Top Lodge, Doddington Road, Lincoln.
Received 26 Mar 200315 Monks Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5HL
Received 27 Feb 20032-4 Elder Street Lincoln
Received 27 Feb 2003Portland Arms, Portland Street, Lincoln.
Received 11 Mar 2003Garden Of 104 Doddington Road, Lincoln
Received 27 Feb 2003Land Between 10 & 11 Anzio Crescent, Lincoln
Received 29 Sept 2004Land At Lorne Street, Great Northern Terrace, Lincoln
Received 14 Oct 200414 The Sidings, Lincoln, LN6 7TP.
Received 24 Sept 200410 -12 Marjorie Avenue, Lincoln.
Received 22 Sept 2004Land To The Rear Of 1A, 1B And 1C Boultham Park Road, Lincoln.
Received 13 Feb 2004Former Bulgin Power Building, Doddington Road, Lincoln
Received 12 Dec 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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