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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19,225 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
5 Thistle Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4TE
Received 25 Jun 200715 St. Margarets Gardens Lincoln LN6 8BE
Received 2 Jul 2008Former Richardson's Electronics Building, Searby Road, Lincoln, LN2 4DT
Received 25 Jun 2008Former Richardson's Electronics Building Searby Road Lincoln LN2 4DT
Received 25 Jun 2008Express By Holiday Inn Brayford Enterprise Park Ruston Way Lincoln LN6 7DQ
Received 23 Jun 2008Land Adjacent To 129 Rivermead, Lincoln LN6 8FE
Received 20 Jun 2008429 High Street Lincoln LN5 8HZ
Received 19 Jun 2008Land At Ruston Way, Brayford Enterprise Park, Lincoln. LN6 7FS
Received 13 Jun 2008Land At Ruston Way, Brayford Enterprise Park, Lincoln LN6 7FS
Received 16 Jun 20085 Frome Close Lincoln LN6 3DA
Received 13 Jun 2008Unit 8 Lowfield Shopping Centre, Brant Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 9TR
Received 17 Jun 2008Andrews Car Centre Corner Of Tritton Road/Dixon Street Lincoln LN6 7UB
Received 6 Jun 200817 Shawbury Close Lincoln LN6 3RF
Received 5 Jun 200837 Hazelwood Avenue Lincoln LN6 0NW
Received 28 May 20082 Leeming Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3RW
Received 27 May 2008Former 'Sopers' Garage (Unit 2) Sunningdale Trading Estate Dixon Street Lincoln Lincs LN6 7UB
Received 4 Jun 20081 High Street Lincoln LN5 8BQ
Received 13 May 2009Knights Building, Lincoln College, 53 Monks Road, Lincoln.
Received 20 Mar 2008Manby House, Newark Road, Lincoln, LN5 8NL
Received 13 Mar 20087 Cranwell Street Lincoln LN5 8BH
Received 3 Mar 20081 Caistor Road Lincoln LN6 3QA
Received 29 Feb 2008Former Richardson's Electronics Building, Searby Road, Lincoln, LN2 4DT
Received 22 Feb 2008269 Brant Road Lincoln LN5 9AB
Received 22 Feb 2008Land Adjacent To 144 Newland Street West, Lincoln, LN1 1QE
Received 15 Feb 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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