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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
19,232 approved · 1,758 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
41 Huntlea Avenue
Received 19 May 1998Plot 18 Higgins Close Off Fulmar Road (Number 21)
Received 14 May 1998Land At Junction Of Nettleham Road And Cabourne Avenue.
Received 14 May 1998All Pets Corner, 102A, Cross Street, Lincoln, LN5 7XH
Received 14 May 199815 Holdenby Road, Lincoln, LN2 4TH
Received 13 May 199861 Brant Road, Lincoln, LN5 8RX
Received 12 May 1998Sibthorp House 350-355 High Street
Received 12 May 19985 Hadfield Road, Lincoln, LN6 7LJ
Received 5 May 1998Land At Junction Of Nettleham Road And Cabourne Avenue
Received 29 Apr 1998Land At Junction Of Nettleham Road And Cabourne Ave.
Received 29 Apr 1998Land At Junction Of Nettleham Road & Cabourne Avenue
Received 29 Apr 19989 Chaucer Drive, Lincoln, LN2 4LN
Received 23 Apr 1998260-266 Hykeham Road, Lincoln.
Received 22 Apr 199880 Macaulay Drive, Lincoln
Received 22 Apr 199825 Greenbank Drive, Lincoln, LN6 7LQ
Received 20 Apr 1998Lincoln School Of Science & Technology, Cross O'Cliff Hill, Lincoln, LN5 8PW
Received 20 Apr 1998Unit 13,14,&15 Sunningdale Trading Estate, Lincoln, LN6 7UB
Received 16 Apr 1998The Body Shop International Plc, 301 High Street, Lincoln, LN2 1AF
Received 15 Apr 199815 Witchford Road, Lincoln, LN6 0ST
Received 15 Apr 1998Radwan, 8 Swanpool Court, Lincoln, LN5 7AN
Received 9 Apr 1998553 Newark Road, Lincoln, LN6 8RY
Received 8 Apr 199823 Wedgewood Road, Lincoln, LN6 3LU
Received 8 Apr 199817 Waltham Road, Lincoln, LN6 0SD
Received 7 Apr 1998Land Between Tentercroft Street & Portland Street
Received 6 Apr 1998Records 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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