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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
19,273 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 2 Land At Rear Of 104 Doddington Road.
Received 24 May 200010 Digby Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3PZ
Received 27 Apr 2000Land At City Office Park, Crusader Road, Lincoln
Received 11 Apr 2000Land Off Wolsey Way
Received 18 Oct 1999Land And Buildings At Tritton Road/Matilda Road
Received 14 Oct 1999A & G Commercials Lincoln Industrial Park Sadler Road Lincoln
Received 23 Sept 19992 Southcoat Mews, 140 Doddington Road,Lincoln, LN6 7HB.
Received 15 Sept 1999Royal Naval Association Club, Coulson Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7BG
Received 15 Sept 1999Land Adjacent To Tesco Store, Wragby Road, Lincoln Rear Of No.S 174, 176 And 178 Wragby Road.
Received 13 Sept 19993 Burton Ridge, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3XL
Received 9 Sept 1999Abb Alstom Gas Turbines, P O Box 1, Waterside South, Lincoln LN2 5DJ
Received 8 Sept 1999Adjacent To No. 6 Exchange Arcade Cornhill.
Received 25 Aug 1999PCS Logistics(Formerly Michelin Warehouse) Tritton Road.
Received 9 Sept 1999Land At Tritton Road/Matilda Road
Received 13 Aug 19991A Farrier Road
Received 1 Sept 1999Swinton Insurance, 120 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7PR
Received 26 Aug 1999Plot 11, Rivermead Close, Lincoln.
Received 8 May 2000Plot 10, Rivermead Close, Lincoln.
Received 8 May 2000Plot 9, Rivermead Close, Lincoln.
Received 8 May 2000Plot 8, Rivermead Close, Lincoln.
Received 8 May 2000Plot 5, Rivermead Close, Lincoln.
Received 8 May 2000Land To South East Of Hykeham Road, (Continuation Of Rivermead).
Received 15 Dec 1999Land Off Woodfield Avenue At Greenock Way.
Received 29 Jul 1999Land West Of Anchor Street
Received 22 Jul 1999Records 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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