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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
19,249 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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156 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7AB
Received 17 May 1999St Marks, The Former Kwik Save Building, Lincoln
Received 28 Oct 1998St Marks, The Former Kwik Save Building, Lincoln
Received 28 Oct 1998205 Yarborough Road, Lincoln, LN1 3NQ
Received 8 Jun 1998Unit 20, St Marks East, Quayside, Lincoln.
Received 9 Nov 199845 Tentercroft Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7DB
Received 14 Oct 1998Bistro 7, 7 Gordon Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AJ
Received 3 Nov 1998Land Adj To River Witham St. Marks East (Quayside)
Received 8 Jul 1998Land Adjacent To River Witham St. Marks East (Quayside)
Received 7 Jul 1998British Telecom, Danesgate House, Grantham Street, Lincoln, LN2 1BA
Received 8 Jul 1998153 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 7AA
Received 11 May 1998153 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 7AA
Received 11 May 199811 Mainwaring Road, Lincoln, LN2 4BL
Received 5 Mar 1998Pyewipe Inn, Saxilby Road, Lincoln, LN1 2BG
Received 3 Feb 1998141 Doddington Road, Lincoln, LN6 7HE
Received 16 Jan 1998Land Adjacent To 31 Carholme Road, Lincoln.
Received 16 Jan 1998Former Kwik Save, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln
Received 13 Jan 1998Site Of Former Kwik Save Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln
Received 13 Mar 1998Land Adjacent To 185 Burton Road And End Of Clarence Street.
Received 13 Jan 1998Land Adjacent 185 Burton Road And End Of Clarence Street
Received 13 Jan 1998Former Hercocks, Brayford Wharf East, Lincoln.
Received 23 Feb 19982 Bottesford Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3YR
Received 8 May 2000Bernadette House, South Park, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8EW
Received 5 Mar 1999Land Off Western Avenue Lincoln
Received 18 Nov 1998Records 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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