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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
19,283 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Carpetright, 3 Tritton Retail Park, Tritton Road, Lincoln.
Received 21 Sept 2005Comet, 1 Tritton Retail Park, Tritton Road, Lincoln.
Received 21 Sept 2005Oh Boys Premises, Silver Street, Lincoln
Received 28 Sept 2005124A Carholme Road, Lincoln, LN1 1SP
Received 19 Aug 2005Land Adjacent To Railway Line, Beevor Street, Lincoln (Formerly Part Of Ruston Bucyrus).
Received 29 Jul 2005Greestone Centre And Annex, Lindum Road, Lincoln
Received 4 Aug 2005Lincoln College, Monks Road, Lincoln, LN2 5HQ
Received 13 Jul 2005Lincoln College, Monks Road, Lincoln, LN2 5HQ.
Received 25 Jul 2005Land To The South Of Mallard Close, Rear Of 32 Shearwater Road.
Received 12 Jul 2005Land To The West Of Mallard Close, Off Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln.
Received 12 Jul 2005Land Adjacent To 47 Queen Mary Road, Lincoln, LN1 3PD.
Received 7 Jul 2005Land To The Rear Of 17-37 And Between 39-41 Victoria Street, Lincoln
Received 28 Jun 2005Riverside Lawns, Land West Of Peel Street, Lincoln
Received 27 Jun 2005Former Sub-Station, Scotton Drive, Lincoln
Received 24 Jun 2005Beech House Waterside South Lincoln LN5 7BL
Received 11 May 2005Land Adjacent To 11 Grosvenor Avenue Lincoln LN6 0XT
Received 10 May 2005Tesco Store Ltd, Wragby Road Lincoln LN2 4QQ
Received 4 May 2005Travellers Site, Washingborough Road, Lincoln, LN4 1EF
Received 9 Jun 2005242 Burton Road Lincoln LN1 3UB
Received 27 Apr 2005Grosvenor Hall Nursing Home, Newark Road, Lincoln
Received 25 Apr 20054 Eleanor Close Lincoln LN5 8PG
Received 25 Apr 2005Plots 49-55 Sobraon Park, Burton Road, Lincoln
Received 18 Apr 2005Unit 8, Tritton Retail Park, Tritton Road, Lincoln
Received 22 Apr 2005Land Off Woodfield Avenue, Adjacent To Wentworth Way, Lincoln.
Received 24 May 2006Records 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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