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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
19,242 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Renfrew Close Lincoln LN5 9AU
Received 14 Dec 2007St Mary's Preparatory School, 5 Pottergate, Lincoln, LN2 1PH
Received 14 Jan 2008St Mary's Preparatory School, 5 Pottergate, Lincoln, LN2 1PH
Received 12 Dec 2007Land To Rear Of 81 Burton Road And 1,3 & 5 Gray Street With Access Off Naam Grove.
Received 11 Dec 2007309 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7DR
Received 14 Aug 200926 Mayfair Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7SH
Received 4 Sept 200847 Hawthorn Road, Lincoln, LN2 4QX
Received 30 May 200814 The Strait, Lincoln, LN2 1JD
Received 13 May 2008Bar LN2, 238-244 High Street, Lincoln, LN2 1AT
Received 30 May 20085 Rivermead Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 8FD
Received 13 May 200819 Carlton Mews, Lincoln, LN2 4FJ
Received 13 May 2008Rear Of 333 High Street High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire
Received 11 May 2009The Priory Academy Cross O'Cliff Hill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8PW
Received 17 Oct 2008Wayside Cottages 15 Naam Place Lincoln
Received 8 Jul 2008104 Yarborough Crescent Lincoln LN1 3LX
Received 14 Jul 2008Land At Sadler Road, South Of Oakwood Road, Lincoln
Received 9 May 2008Land Off Poplar Avenue Adjacent To Ruston Way, Lincoln.
Received 23 May 2008375 High Street, Lincoln, LN5 7RY
Received 28 May 20088 Albion Crescent Lincoln LN1 1EB
Received 30 Apr 2008Land On Dunkirk Road To Rear Of 9 Arras Close, Lincoln
Received 28 Apr 200867 Newark Road Lincoln LN5 8NE
Received 9 May 20083 St. Helens Avenue Lincoln LN6 7RA
Received 14 May 20089-13 Monks Rd, Lincoln, Including Building To Rear Of 15 To 23 (Former Kerr Pattern Company).
Received 16 Nov 200779A Cecil Street Lincoln LN1 3AT
Received 21 Nov 2007Records 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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