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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
19,244 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Lawn Union Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3BL
Received 4 Aug 2009Lincoln College Christs Hospital Terrace Lincoln LN2 1LY
Received 3 Aug 2009Land Adjacent To 124 Carholme Road, Lincoln
Received 23 Jun 2008Land To The North Of 2 Olsen Rise, Lincoln LN2 4UZ
Received 17 Jun 20085 Shaftesbury Avenue Lincoln LN6 0QN
Received 16 Jun 2008Stonefield Close Church Lane Lincoln LN2 1QR
Received 16 Jun 2008Land Adjacent To 22 Farrington Crescent, Lincoln, LN6 0YG
Received 24 Apr 2008Land To Rear Of 81 Burton Road And 1, 3 & 5 Gray Street With Access Off Naam Grove.
Received 23 Apr 2008St Giles Infant School, Addison Drive, Lincoln LN2 4LQ
Received 17 Apr 2008233 Newark Road Lincoln LN5 8NT
Received 17 Apr 200825-35 Sadler Road Lincoln LN6 3XJ
Received 9 Jun 2008Tesco Plc, Wragby Road, Lincoln, LN2 4QQ
Received 3 Apr 2008Tesco Plc, Dunford Road, Lincoln.
Received 3 Apr 2008Grosvenor Hall Nursing Home Newark Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8QT
Received 9 May 2008105 Longdales Road, Lincoln, LN2 2JS
Received 31 Mar 20086 Eleanor Close Lincoln LN5 8PG
Received 22 Apr 2008McDonalds Restaurant, 2 Ruston Road, Lincoln.
Received 31 Mar 2008Valentine Retail Park Valentine Road Lincoln Lincolnshire
Received 27 Mar 20088 Westwood Drive Lincoln LN6 0HJ
Received 26 Mar 20083 Occupation Road Lincoln LN1 3LD
Received 25 Mar 2008390 Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5PZ
Received 20 Mar 200832 Benson Crescent Lincoln LN6 3NU
Received 19 Mar 200849 Nettleham Road Lincoln LN2 1RW
Received 18 Mar 2008Principal's House, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Newport, Lincoln LN1 3DY
Received 14 Mar 2008Records 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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