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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19,283 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Saxon Street Lincoln LN1 3HQ
Received 18 Apr 200653 Monks Road (Former Tradex Building), Lincoln, LN2 5HN.
Received 10 Apr 2006187 Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5JN
Received 4 Apr 2006Ripon Arms 33-34 Monson Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7RZ
Received 20 Mar 2006Land To The Rear Of And Including 29/31 The Strait And Land Adjacent To 38 Grantham Street, Lincoln.
Received 30 Mar 200641 Brant Road Lincoln LN5 8RL
Received 22 Feb 2006Land At Ruston Road, Brayford Enterprise Park, Lincoln.
Received 21 Feb 2006Land On The Corner Of Mons Road And Dunkirk Road Lincoln
Received 20 Feb 2006Unit 18, Valentines Retail Park, Valentine Road, Lincoln.
Received 13 Feb 2006Unit 18 Valentine Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7BH
Received 10 Feb 200676 Macaulay Drive Lincoln LN2 4EL
Received 19 Jan 2006Land To The Rear Of 29-31 The Strait Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1JD
Received 21 Dec 2005Minster Lodge 3 Church Lane Lincoln LN2 1QJ
Received 28 Dec 2005White Hart Hotel Bailgate Lincoln LN1 3AR
Received 28 Dec 2005White Hart Hotel Bailgate Lincoln LN1 3AR
Received 28 Dec 2005Land West Of 9 Otters Cottages, Newark Road, Lincoln.
Received 7 Dec 2005Lincolnshire Roadcar Bus Station, Melville Street, Lincoln
Received 21 Nov 2005Former Petrol Filling Station Tritton Road Lincoln LN6 7QY
Received 28 Aug 2007Part Of Yarborough Leisure Centre, Former Parade Ground, Off Nene Road, Lincoln.
Received 31 Jan 200776 Great Northern Terrace Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8HJ
Received 11 Aug 20063 Fern Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7GR
Received 27 Oct 2005Land To The Rear Of And Including 29/31 The Strait And Land Adjacent To 38 Grantham Street, Lincoln.
Received 26 Oct 2005Land To The Rear Of And Including 29/31 The Strait And Land Adjacent To 38 Grantham Street, Lincoln.
Received 26 Oct 2005Hillcrest Hotel, 15 Lindum Terrace, Lincoln, LN2 5RT
Received 6 Oct 2005Records 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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