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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
19,200 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
360 Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3UP
Received 5 Dec 201130 Gregg Hall Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8AH
Received 6 Dec 201110 Lansdowne Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7PU
Received 1 Dec 20115 Moor Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1PW
Received 2 Dec 2011Outside 11 St Catherines Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8LN
Received 2 Dec 2011Lindum Terrace (Opposite Lincoln Minster School) Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5HQ
Received 2 Dec 2011Walkers Snack Foods 255 Newark Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8XN
Received 28 Nov 2011Land Adjacent To 16 Bishops Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN4 4JZ
Received 21 Nov 2011Sobraon Park Cambrai Close Lincoln Lincolnshire
Received 23 Nov 20114 Ebony Grove Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0PW
Received 23 Nov 2011St Georges Church, Eastbrook Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Received 7 Nov 20112 Clive Avenue Lincoln LN6 7UH
Received 3 Nov 201147 Rookery Lane Lincoln LN6 7PX
Received 13 May 201378 Canwick Road Lincoln LN5 8EX
Received 9 May 2013Kram Contract Cleaning Ltd 97 Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5HS
Received 9 May 201352 Rookery Lane Lincoln LN6 7PY
Received 26 Apr 2013106A Hewson Road Lincoln LN1 1RX
Received 25 Apr 20131 Oak Court Lincoln LN6 8SF
Received 19 Oct 2015Hartsholme Academy Carrington Drive Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 00E
Received 4 Jul 2012Route 3 Cars West Parade Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1QL
Received 3 Jul 201214 Clasketgate Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1JS
Received 2 Jul 2012Land Between 8 & 14 A, Wellington Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1PL
Received 5 Jan 201215 Beaufort Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4SF
Received 27 Oct 2011501B Newark Road Lincoln LN6 8RT
Received 21 Oct 2011Records 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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