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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
19,277 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 To The Rear Of 83 Doddington Road, Lincoln.
Received 1 Jun 2000Land At Site South Of Doddington Road.
Received 25 May 2000Stoneacre 108-116, Dixon Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7DA
Received 16 May 2000297 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AF
Received 22 May 2000297 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AF
Received 12 May 2000Plot 6 Rivermead Close
Received 8 May 2000Plot 4, Rivermead Close, Lincoln.
Received 8 May 2000Plot 7, Rivermead Close, Lincoln.
Received 8 May 2000Land Adjacent To Tritton Road And End Of Dixon Close, Lincoln
Received 5 May 2000Electricity Sub-Station, Beevor Street, Lincoln
Received 1 Sept 2003Allotment Plots 50/51, Long Leys Road, Lincoln
Received 20 Mar 2003Sobraon Barracks, Burton Road, Lincoln.
Received 19 Aug 2002153, Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4PR
Received 13 Mar 2002Land At Hall Drive, Lincoln.
Received 2 May 2000Bracebridge County Infant School, Francis Street, Bracebridge, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8QG
Received 27 Apr 2000647 Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8SA
Received 27 Apr 20004 Shearwater Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0XX
Received 26 Apr 2000Land Off Woodfield Avenue At Greenock Way
Received 4 Apr 2000Land Off Wolsey Way.
Received 3 Apr 2000Land West Of Peel Street, Lincoln.
Received 28 Mar 2000Land North Side Of Gaunt Street (41/41A), Lincoln, LN5 7PU
Received 29 Mar 2000Riverside Lawns, Peel Street.
Received 28 Mar 200013 Chedworth Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4SL
Received 27 Mar 2000Land West Of 9 Otters Cottages (Newark Road).
Received 22 Mar 2000Records 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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