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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
19,261 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Damons Motel Doddington Road Lincoln LN6 3SE
Received 3 Jul 200636 Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincs
Received 6 Jul 2006The Annexe Bar, Park Street, Lincoln, LN1 1UF
Received 30 Nov 2007The Annexe Bar, Park Street, Lincoln LN1 1UF
Received 18 Dec 200726/27 Steep Hill Lincoln LN2 1LU
Received 9 Mar 2007264 High Street Lincoln LN2 1HW
Received 12 Jun 2006Westgate Water Tower, Chapel Lane, Lincon, LN1 3AZ
Received 7 Jun 2006Westgate Water Tower Chapel Lane Lincoln LN1 3AZ
Received 1 Jun 2006Dixons, 304 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 7DT
Received 31 May 2006Unit 2, The Slipper Baths, Waterside North, Lincoln, LN2 5DQ
Received 26 May 200684 & 86 Yarborough Road Lincoln LN1 1HR
Received 25 May 20062 Goldcrest Close Lincoln LN6 0UX
Received 25 May 2006272 Burton Road Lincoln LN1 3UW
Received 23 May 2006Land Adjacent To West Hill House, Carline Road, Lincoln.
Received 26 May 2006Coral 279 Boultham Park Road Lincoln LN6 7ST
Received 10 Mar 2008140 Doddington Road Lincoln LN6 7HB
Received 3 Sept 20072 Cornhill, Lincoln, LN5 7HE
Received 29 Aug 2007T Mobile, 320 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 7DW
Received 29 Aug 2007Former Railway Embankment, Adjacent To Tritton Road And Railway Park Close And To The Rear Of 11-29 Coulson Road, Lincoln.
Received 27 Nov 2006Lyleston Church Lane Lincoln LN2 1QR
Received 6 Dec 2006Kind, High Street, Lincoln LN2 1HW
Received 23 Nov 2006National Westminster Bank, 225 High Street Lincoln LN2 1AZ
Received 15 Nov 200664 High Street Lincoln LN5 8AH
Received 22 Aug 200653 Danesgate Lincoln LN2 1ND
Received 3 Jul 2006Records 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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