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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
19,225 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
2 Breedon Drive Lincoln LN1 3XA
Received 23 Sept 200824 Mons Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3UG
Received 16 Sept 20084 Union Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3BJ
Received 9 Sept 2008Land Adjacent To 11 Francis Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3EJ
Received 9 Sept 200819 Hainton Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7PR
Received 3 Sept 200831 Mint Street Lincoln LN1 1UB
Received 2 Sept 200831 Mint Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1UB
Received 2 Sept 2008Land Bounded By Waterside South, Melville Street, Oxford Street, St.Marys Street And Sincil Street, Lincoln
Received 1 Sept 20084 Grasmere Way Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0YB
Received 27 Aug 2008100A High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7QB
Received 20 Aug 2008Brayford Enterprise Park Ruston Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7FS
Received 18 Aug 200826 Hunt Lea Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7XA
Received 30 Jul 200814 West Parade Lincoln LN1 1JT
Received 2 Nov 2010Carholme Golf Club Carholme Road Lincoln LN1 1SE
Received 2 Nov 2010Unit G St Marks Retail Park Lincoln LN6 7TP
Received 1 Nov 2010170 Scorer Street Lincoln LN5 7SX
Received 28 Oct 2010Land To The East Of Long Leys Road Lincoln
Received 28 Oct 2010Former Richardson's Electronics Building, Searby Road Lincoln LN2 4DT
Received 4 Mar 20094 Hallam Grove Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7SL
Received 3 Dec 200824 Berilldon Drive Lincoln LN1 1AN
Received 23 Jul 2008Fortuna Primary School Kingsdown Road Lincoln LN6 0FB
Received 21 Jul 2008Kind Bar High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1HW
Received 7 Jul 2008Land To Rear Of 99 - 107 Canwick Road Lincoln
Received 21 Jul 20085 Crofton Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN3 4NL
Received 1 Jul 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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