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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
19,269 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garage Court, Romney Close/Turner Avenue
Received 17 Nov 1998Land West Of 32-54 Camwood Crescent
Received 17 Nov 1998Former Garage Site, Land East Of Grainsby Close
Received 17 Nov 1998Land At Shamrock Court
Received 13 Nov 1998Land Adjacent To Unit 8, Tritton Retail Park, Tritton Road, Lincoln
Received 30 Oct 2000Unit 2, Lincoln Trade Centre, Dixon Close, Lincoln
Received 27 Oct 200042 Winn Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5EU
Received 11 Sept 2000Land North West Of Valentine Road, Lincoln.
Received 7 Sept 1999Welbeck Street Garage Site (Car Parking Area)
Received 6 Sept 199911 Farrier Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3RU
Received 2 Sept 1999Dixon Close (Sunningdale Trading Estate)
Received 3 Sept 1999Lincoln Industries (Part Old Bucyrus Industrial Bays) Beevor Street.
Received 8 Apr 1999211 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AA
Received 26 Mar 1999Tritton Retail Park, Tritton Road, Lincoln
Received 25 Mar 1999Plot 15, Higgins Close, Fulmar Road,Lincoln (Number 27)
Received 18 Mar 1999Campions Of Lincoln, 477-480 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8JG
Received 27 Jan 199945 Steep Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1LU
Received 16 Nov 1998Plots 33, 35, And 36 Off Brooklands Way, Woodfield Ave. Phase 6 Doddington Park.
Received 10 Nov 1998Plot 15 Higgins Close, Fulmar Roadlincoln. (Number 27)
Received 10 Nov 1998Land At Hall Drive Lincoln.
Received 27 Oct 1998Land Between Wolsey Way & Relief Road (Nettleham Fields)Sites LF2/LF3.
Received 16 Oct 1998Land Between Wolsey Way & Relief Road (Nettleham Fields) Sites LF2/LF3.
Received 16 Oct 1998Tiger Tool Hire, 57 Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8LS
Received 9 Oct 1998European Gas Turbines Ltd, Firth Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7AA
Received 23 Nov 1998Records 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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