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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
19,273 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Claytons Carpets Ltd, Tritton House, Matilda Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7BN
Received 14 Aug 2001Wirtgen Ltd, Units 2-5, George Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8LG
Received 9 Jan 2001Plot 13 Higgins Close, Fulmar Road, Lincoln
Received 17 Jan 2000Former Broadway Service Station, Newport.
Received 13 Aug 19997 Durham Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0QG
Received 1 Jul 1999Unit C, Tritton Road Trading Estatetritton Road, Lincoln. (Also Known As 9 Chieftain Way)
Received 28 Jun 199913 Harlaxton Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3NR
Received 23 Jun 1999Lincoln Co-Op Society Ltd. Skellingthorpe Road/Moorland Avenue Junction. Lincoln
Received 22 Jun 1999Abbey And Temple Buildings North Lincolnshire College Monks Road
Received 21 Jun 1999Poundstretchers Ltd, 233-237 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AT
Received 18 Jun 1999Building At Rear Of 18 Rasen Lane.
Received 16 Jun 199953 Belmont Street & 44 Winn Street
Received 14 Jun 19992 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8BQ
Received 5 Jul 1999W H Smith Ltd, Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7HE
Received 10 Jun 199935 Gregg Hall Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8AQ
Received 9 Jun 1999The Lincolnshire Poacher, Bunkers Hill
Received 8 Jun 199937 Wickenby Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3TJ
Received 7 Jun 1999Land East Of Junction Of Larne Road And Southdown
Received 7 Jun 1999Allwoods Discount Motorstore, 221 Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8NT
Received 20 Jul 1999Land At Doddington Road Lincoln (Opposite Birchwood Avenue)
Received 26 May 199997-98 High Street Lincoln
Received 10 May 1999Plots 33, 35 And 36 Off Brooklands Way ,Woodfield Avenue Phase 6
Received 4 May 1999Plots 33, 35 And 36 Off Brooklands Way Woodfield Avenue, Phase 6
Received 4 May 1999Plots 33, 35,And 36 Off Brooklands Waywoodfield Avenue, Phase 6
Received 4 May 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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