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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
19,224 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land To Rear Of 2 Cross O'Cliff Hill Lincoln LN5 8PN
Received 15 Apr 20084 Hunt Lea Avenue Lincoln
Received 28 Jan 20082 Sadler Road Lincoln LN6 3RA
Received 8 Feb 2008164 Doddington Road Lincoln LN6 7HF
Received 4 Dec 2007Cloud Bar, 1 St. Pauls Lane, Lincoln, LN1 3AL
Received 3 Dec 20071 Willis Close Lincoln LN1 3LG
Received 26 Nov 2007Lincoln St Giles Nursery School, Addison Drive, Lincoln
Received 23 Nov 2007Former Petrol Filling Station Site, Tritton Rd, Lincoln
Received 22 Nov 2007Spaldings UK Ltd, 25-35 Sadler Road Lincoln LN6 3XJ
Received 11 Dec 2007The Beeches Skellingthorpe Road Lincoln LN6 0EN
Received 8 Nov 2007King George Playing Field, Off Macaulay Drive, St Giles, Lincoln.
Received 14 Nov 2007Wildlife, Birchwood Avenue, Lincoln, LN6 0JB
Received 29 Oct 2007Former Richardson's Electronics Building, Searby Road Lincoln LN2 4DT
Received 26 Oct 2007Former Richardson's Electronics Building, Searby Road, Nettleham Road, Lincoln, LN2 4DT
Received 26 Oct 2007Land Adjacent To 27 Saxon Street, Lincoln, LN1 3HN
Received 23 Oct 2007375 High Street Lincoln LN5 7RY
Received 22 Oct 2007Unit 10 And 11 Sunningdale Trading Estate, Dixon Close, Lincoln, LN6 7UB
Received 27 Dec 2007128 Carholme Road, Lincoln, LN1 1RU
Received 18 Oct 200784 Wolsey Way Lincoln LN2 4SJ
Received 1 Oct 200711 Shearwater Close Lincoln LN6 0XU
Received 25 Sept 200712 Buckfast Road, Lincoln.
Received 25 Sept 2007Tower Located On Clayton Road, Bracebridge, Lincoln LN5 8QB
Received 19 Sept 2007Doddington Ward, Carholme Court, St Georges Hospital, Long Leys Road, Lincoln
Received 27 Sept 2007Land To The South Of Earlsfield Close, Sadler Road, Lincoln, LN6 3RT
Received 19 Sept 2007Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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