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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
19,201 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garden Land Adjacent To 12 Ludford Drive, Lincoln, LN6 0AP
Received 9 Aug 20065 Yarborough Terrace Lincoln LN1 1HN
Received 8 Aug 2006Rileys Pool And Snooker, 15 Crofton Road, Lincoln, LN3 4NN.
Received 2 Aug 2006Former Pickfords, 15 Crofton Road
Received 24 Jul 200663 Ripon Street Lincoln LN5 7NH
Received 21 Jul 20068 Ripon Street Lincoln LN5 7NL
Received 1 Nov 200535 Hunt Lea Avenue Lincoln LN6 7UZ
Received 24 Oct 20053 Oakwood Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3LH
Received 17 Oct 2005173 Rookery Lane Lincoln LN6 7PJ
Received 10 Oct 200519 Newland Street West Lincoln LN1 1QQ
Received 7 Oct 2005Esso Petrol Station, 246 Newark Road, Lincoln.
Received 7 Oct 200563 Ripon Street Lincoln LN5 7NH
Received 17 Jan 2006109 Nightingale Crescent Lincoln LN6 0JR
Received 3 Oct 200540 Western Crescent Lincoln LN6 7TD
Received 23 Sept 2005229-231 Newark Road, Lincoln, LN5 8PE
Received 23 Sept 200538 Long Leys Road Lincoln LN1 1DP
Received 11 Oct 2005Plot 9, Greenbank Drive, Lincoln
Received 13 Jan 2006Plot 10 Whitefriars Road, Bunkers Hill, Lincoln
Received 22 Jul 20056 Digby Close Lincoln LN6 3PZ
Received 25 Jul 2005152 Newark Road Lincoln LN5 8QJ
Received 15 Jul 2005152 Newark Road Lincoln LN5 8QJ
Received 28 Jul 2005Land Adjacent To 111 Portland Street, Lincoln, LN5 7LG.
Received 14 Jul 2005Land Adjacent To 137 Doddington Road, Lincoln, LN6 7HE
Received 13 Jul 200514 Bailgate Lincoln LN1 3AE
Received 12 Jul 2005Records 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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