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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19,283 approved · 1,758 refused · 753 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Newland Lincoln LN1 1XP
Received 26 Aug 2004Viking House 98 Newland Lincoln LN1 1XT
Received 6 Nov 2003Land Off Kingsdown Road, Adjacent To Furndown Court, Lincoln.
Received 18 Nov 200339B Carholme Road, Lincoln, LN1 1RN.
Received 11 Aug 2004Bifrangi UK Limited, P O Box 22, Tower Works, Waterside North, Lincoln, LN2 5DT
Received 16 Jun 2004Former RAF Museum, The Lawn Centre Union Road Lincoln LN1 3BJ
Received 25 Feb 2004Land Between 99 & 101 Tower Crescent Lincoln LN2 5QH
Received 8 Mar 2004Land To Rear Of 116 Doddington Road Lincoln LN6 7HB
Received 25 Feb 200478 Sixfield Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0EJ
Received 24 Feb 2004Land Adjacent To West Hill House, Carline Road, Lincoln
Received 29 Oct 2003Former Save Petrol Station, 216-232 Monks Road, Lincoln LN2 5PP
Received 24 Oct 2003Riverside Lawns, Peel Street, Lincoln. LN5 8GA
Received 22 Oct 2003127 Burton Road Lincoln LN1 3LN
Received 6 Nov 200383A Hewson Road, Lincoln, LN1 1RZ
Received 20 Oct 2003Land To The Rear Of 121 Newark Road/Top Of Saville Street, Lincoln
Received 10 Oct 200329 Corporation Street, Lincoln.
Received 30 Sept 2003Siemens, Waterside South, Lincoln, LN5 7FD
Received 19 Sept 2003Siemens, Waterside South, Lincoln, LN5 7FD
Received 19 Sept 2003123 Canwick Road Lincoln LN5 8EY
Received 15 Sept 2003Warehouses 1 & 2, Outer Circle Road Business Park, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln.
Received 15 Sept 2003Joseph Ruston Technology College, Shannon Avenue, Lincoln.
Received 15 Sept 2003E2V Technologies (UK) Ltd Carholme Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1SF
Received 2 Jul 2010Land Between 10 & 11 Anzio Crescent Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3PS
Received 25 Jun 2010RMSC Newark Road North Hykeham Lincoln LN6 8RZ
Received 4 Jun 2010Records 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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