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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19,283 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Claytons Carpets 134 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7PJ
Received 3 Jul 2008134 High Street, Lincoln
Received 3 Jul 2008Choristers Mews 1A Nettleham Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1RF
Received 14 Jul 2008The Terrace Grantham Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1BO
Received 30 Apr 2008Sewage Pumping Station Washingborough Road Lincoln LN4 1EF
Received 24 Apr 2008Garages And Workshop, Mill Lane, Lincoln, LN5 7QN
Received 24 Apr 200872 Mill Road Lincoln LN1 3JH
Received 27 Mar 2008Former St Matthew's Church Boultham Park Road Lincoln
Received 25 Mar 2008Former St Matthew's Church Boultham Park Road Lincoln
Received 25 Mar 2008Former Parade Ground, Nene Road, Lincoln, LN1 3PL
Received 6 Feb 2008Forte Plc White Hart Hotel Bailgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AR
Received 22 Dec 2009White Hart Garage Bailgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AR
Received 22 Dec 2009Land At Former Save Filling Station Broadgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AQ
Received 8 Oct 2009Development Behind 32 - 50 Friars Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AL
Received 7 Oct 2009Garden Land Adjacent To 88 Yarborough Crescent, Lincoln, LN1 3LX
Received 16 May 2008The Green Dragon, Broadgate, Lincoln.
Received 11 Apr 2008Two Plots Of Land Off Blenheim Road, Lincoln LN1 1PU
Received 20 Nov 200722 Sincil Bank, Lincoln, LN5 7LB
Received 8 Nov 2007Premises At Blenheim Road Lincoln LN1 1PU
Received 31 Oct 2007White Hart Hotel, Bailgate, Lincoln, LN1 3AR
Received 22 Oct 2007White Hart Hotel, Bailgate, Lincoln, LN1 3AR
Received 22 Oct 2007Tritton Road Filling Station Tritton Road Lincoln LN6 7QY
Received 5 Oct 2007Constitutional Club, Silver Street, Lincoln LN2 1AS
Received 11 Sept 2007Constitutional Club, Silver Street, Lincoln LN2 1RS
Received 11 Sept 2007Records 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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