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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
19,194 approved · 1,759 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
68 Hemswell Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0BA
Received 29 Feb 200051 Elsham Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3YZ
Received 28 Feb 200025 Hainton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7PR
Received 8 Mar 200010 Shearwater Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0XX
Received 10 Mar 2000169 Rookery Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7PW
Received 7 Mar 200038 Greenbank Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7LQ
Received 22 Feb 200022 Haffenden Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1RP
Received 11 Feb 2000140 Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3LW
Received 11 Feb 20002 Mallory Close, Doddington Park, Lincoln
Received 22 Feb 20006 Union Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3BJ
Received 6 Mar 2000117 Larne Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 9TP
Received 27 Jan 200048 Carholme Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1ST
Received 26 Jan 2000Junction Of Poplar Avenue/Green Lanelincoln
Received 26 Jan 20006 Eleanor Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8PG
Received 26 Jan 2000Alexanders Of Lincoln Ltd, Tritton Road, Lincoln
Received 24 Jan 2000Plots 26, 27, 28 And 29, Land Off Smith Street, Lincoln.
Received 21 Jan 2000Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd, Birchwood Centre, Jasmin Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0PY
Received 12 Apr 2000Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd, Lowfields Centre, Renfrew Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 9AW
Received 17 Jan 2000Lowfields County Infants School, Calder Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 9BB
Received 11 Jan 200092 High Street, Lincoln.
Received 10 Jan 200095 Ruskin Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4DF
Received 6 Jan 200040 Farrington Crescent And Land To The Rear Of 42 Farrington Crescent, Lincoln.
Received 24 Dec 1999Plot C 292 Brant Road Lincoln
Received 22 Dec 199915 Goxhill Grove, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3PH
Received 10 Dec 1999Records 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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