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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
19,253 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Burton Cliff House, Burton Road, Lincoln.
Received 12 Feb 200211, Mainwaring Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4BL
Received 8 Feb 2002105, Grange Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8BY
Received 22 Feb 2002Littlewoods Organisation Ltd, 216-219 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AB
Received 6 Feb 2001Wright Window Systems Ltd, 12 Crofton Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN3 4NR
Received 29 Jan 2001Lincoln Ford Dealerships, 1 Outer Circle Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4HZ
Received 23 Jan 2001Odeon Cinema, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln, LN1 1YX.
Received 22 Jan 2001Farmfoods, Valentine Road, Lincoln
Received 19 Jan 2001290/291 High Street, Lincoln
Received 18 Jan 2001Barclays Bank, 316 High Street, Lincoln
Received 11 Jan 2001Bowling Green Public House, Wragby Road, Lincoln
Received 20 Dec 2000115 Monks Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5HT
Received 15 Dec 200048-50 Park Street (Former WM Wrights), Lincoln
Received 11 Dec 2000Former Parade Ground, Sobraon Barracks, Burton Road.
Received 28 Nov 2000The Slipper Baths, Waterside North, Lincoln
Received 24 Nov 2000Charles Warner Ltd, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4LD
Received 1 Dec 2000Former East Midlands Electricity Depot, Tritton Road, Lincoln, LN6 7RS.
Received 13 Nov 2000Land To Rear Of Lincolnshire Poacher Public House, Bunkers Hill, Lincoln
Received 9 Nov 20002 Mint Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1UD
Received 6 Nov 2000Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd, 42 Lamb Gardens, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4EQ
Received 3 Nov 2000195 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7AL
Received 3 Nov 2000Lincoln Minster School, 8 Eastgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1QG
Received 13 Oct 200062 Sewell Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 5QX
Received 10 Oct 200082 Cranwell Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8AJ
Received 8 Nov 2000Records 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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