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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
19,281 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Seeleys Restaurant, 14, Bailgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AE
Received 6 Mar 2002Seeleys Restaurant, 14, Bailgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AE
Received 26 Feb 2002Wilkinson Store, Waterside South, Lincoln
Received 11 Mar 2002Land Between No.'s 10 & 11 Anzio Crescent, Lincoln
Received 5 Mar 2002Alstom Power UK Ltd, P O Box 1, Waterside South, Lincoln LN5 7FD
Received 14 Mar 2002George Street Great Northern Terrace Lincoln
Received 13 Mar 20022 Hamilton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8ED
Received 28 Jul 2003Valentine Retail Park, Valentine Road, Tritton Road, Lincoln.
Received 31 Mar 2003Land To The Rear Of 121 Newark Road/Top Of Saville Street, Lincoln
Received 23 Aug 2002Land At Doddington Road, Lincoln (Opposite Birchwood Avenue)
Received 28 Aug 2002Land At Laurel Close, Lincoln (In Accordance With Revised Drawings Dated 20 August 2002)
Received 27 Jun 200215, Geralds Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AL
Received 6 Feb 200218 Newport Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3DF
Received 4 Feb 2002Ambitions Personnel Ltd, 19-20, Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7HB
Received 1 Feb 20022, Swallowbeck Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7HA
Received 30 Jan 200216, Guildhall Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1TT
Received 29 Jan 200216, Guildhall Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1TT
Received 29 Jan 20024, Guildhall Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1TT
Received 29 Jan 200216, Guildhall Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1TT
Received 24 Jan 20028, The Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1PB
Received 24 Jan 200232, Ruskin Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4DA
Received 23 Jan 2002J Sainsbury Plc, Tritton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7QN
Received 4 Mar 200245, Steep Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1LU
Received 8 Jan 200245, Steep Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1LU
Received 8 Jan 2002Records 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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