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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
19,283 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
J Sainsbury Plc Tritton Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7QN
Received 14 May 2010Land To Rear Of Industrial Warehouse Deacon Road Lincoln LN2 4LB
Received 20 Mar 2009White Hart Garage 2 Bailgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AE
Received 11 Feb 2009White Hart Garage Bailgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AE
Received 11 Feb 2009Former St Botolphs Infant School Bargate Lincoln LN5 8DH
Received 26 Jan 2009469 High Street/Spencer Street
Received 12 Dec 2008469 High Street, Lincoln
Received 12 Dec 200810 James Street Lincoln LN2 1QE
Received 13 Nov 200810 James Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1QE
Received 6 Nov 2008H M Prison Greetwell Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4BD
Received 8 Oct 200824 And 26 St. Catherines Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8LY
Received 15 Sept 2008Former St Matthew's Church Boultham Park Road Lincoln
Received 8 Sept 2008Tesco Stores Limited Wragby Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4QQ
Received 18 Aug 2008Land At 19A Drury Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3BN
Received 14 Aug 2008St Michael On The Mount Church Christs Hospital Terrace Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1LY
Received 1 Jul 201035 Belle Vue Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1HH
Received 25 Jul 2008Gibney Building Lincoln College Monks Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5HQ
Received 7 Jul 2008Bishops Building Lincoln College Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5HQ
Received 27 Jun 2008Part Of Yarborough Leisure Centre, Former Parade Ground, Off Nene Road, Lincoln.
Received 12 Jun 2008Gibney Building Lincoln College Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5HQ
Received 5 Jun 2008Gibney Building Lincoln College Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5HQ
Received 27 May 2008St Catherines Service Station 53 - 55 St. Catherines Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8LX
Received 16 Jan 2009Land To The Rear Of Industrial Warehouse, Deacon Road, Lincoln
Received 21 Jul 2008Land Between 10 And 11 Anzio Crescent Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3PS
Received 3 Jul 2008Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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