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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
19,280 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 To The Rear Of 25 Nettleham Road, Lincoln
Received 14 Jan 200250, Outer Circle Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4JH
Received 31 Dec 20016, Oakleigh Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1DG
Received 27 Dec 2001Land Off Moorland Way, Lincoln.
Received 27 Dec 2001Land At 53 Moorland Avenue, Lincoln
Received 19 Dec 200120 Beevor Street, Lincoln, LN6 7DJ
Received 14 Dec 2001Land Adjacent To The Junction Of Deacon Road And Outer Circle Road Lincoln
Received 12 Dec 2001Land Adjacent To Johnstones Paints, Great Northern Terrace, Lincoln.
Received 17 Jan 2002Land At Wetherby Crescent, Lincoln.
Received 7 Dec 2001Valentine Park, Valentine Road, Tritton Road, Lincoln
Received 5 Dec 200118 Newport Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3DF
Received 27 Nov 200110-12 Marjorie Avenue, Lincoln.
Received 26 Nov 2001St. Peter At Arches, Silver Street, Lincoln
Received 22 Nov 2001Radio Tower Transco Compound Clayton Road Lincoln
Received 22 Nov 2001Westminster Cars, Off Dixon Street, Lincoln.
Received 20 Nov 20018A Bedford Street, Lincoln
Received 20 Nov 2001Carpetright Plc, Unit 3, Tritton Retail Park, Lincoln.
Received 19 Nov 2001Limekiln Way, Off Greetwell Road, Lincoln
Received 19 Nov 2001Ambitions Personnel Ltd, 19-20, Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7HB
Received 29 Nov 2001Tanvic Tyre Company Ltd, 61 - 63 Carholme Road, Lincoln
Received 15 Nov 2001Land Between Pershore Way, Birchwood Avenue And Woodfield Avenue, Lincoln.
Received 6 Nov 2001Land Adjacent To Manor Farm, Hykeham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8AP
Received 6 Nov 20011, Chippendale Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3PP
Received 8 Nov 2001188, Boultham Park Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7TE
Received 5 Nov 2001Records 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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