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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19,253 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
The Old Maltings, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln
Received 6 Apr 2000Dolcis, 305 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7DR
Received 10 Apr 2000137-139 Doddington Road, Lincoln.
Received 4 Apr 20004 Sywell Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3NY
Received 29 Mar 2000Land At Junction Of Swan Street And Grantham Street.
Received 5 Jun 2000Dial House And Cottage, 86/88 Riseholme Road.
Received 7 Apr 200013 St. Catherines Road, Lincoln, LN5 8DY
Received 23 Mar 200019-20 Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7HB
Received 22 Mar 2000Kershaws Newsagents, 211 Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8NP
Received 30 Mar 200019-20 Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7HB
Received 22 Mar 2000143 Hykeham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8AD
Received 31 Mar 2000156 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7AB
Received 24 Mar 2000134A Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8QF
Received 15 Mar 2000Dolcis, 305 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7DR
Received 22 Mar 2000Dolcis, 305 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7DR
Received 22 Mar 2000The Old Maltings, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln
Received 7 Mar 20008 Bank Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1DZ
Received 29 Feb 20008 Bank Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1DS
Received 29 Feb 2000661C Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8SA
Received 25 Feb 2000Site Of Former Kwik Save Building Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln.
Received 23 Feb 200025 Foster Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7QE
Received 11 Feb 200096 West Parade, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1JZ
Received 31 Jan 2000Garden In St. Marks Square.
Received 7 Jan 2000Bowling Green, 324 Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4QD
Received 6 Jan 2000Records 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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