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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
19,201 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
3 Monks Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5HL
Received 31 Dec 2009Tesco Stores Ltd Canwick Road Trading Estate Lincoln LN5 8HS
Received 9 Oct 200945-48 Croft Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AZ
Received 7 Oct 2009Monks Abbey Ruins Monks Road Lincoln
Received 15 Jul 2009Land To The Rear Of Marthas Vineyard Beaumont Fee Lincoln LN1 1UX
Received 24 Jul 2009Land To The Rear Of Marthas Vineyard Beaumont Fee Lincoln LN1 1UX
Received 24 Jul 2009142 Doddington Road Lincoln LN6 7HB
Received 22 Jul 200822 Thesiger Street Lincoln LN5 7UU
Received 22 Jul 2008Land Adjacent Siemens Factory Entrance Firth Road Lincoln LN6 7AD
Received 21 Jul 200851 Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5HN
Received 10 Mar 200851 Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5HN
Received 10 Mar 200864 Monson Street Lincoln LN5 7SB
Received 26 Apr 201036/37 Chequers Club Monson Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7SB
Received 23 Apr 2010Land At Rear Of Acorn House 229-231 Newark Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8NT
Received 22 Apr 2010Land At Wavell Drive, Lincoln, LN3 4NT
Received 4 Sept 2008Knights Building, Lincoln College, 53 Monks Road, Lincoln.
Received 16 May 200860 Mill Road Lincoln LN1 3JH
Received 19 May 200825 To 173 (Odds), Monks Road, Lincoln
Received 24 Jan 2008Stonegarth Northgate Lincoln LN2 1QT
Received 24 Jan 2008Unit 3, Sunningdale Trading Estate, Dixon Close, Lincoln.
Received 22 Nov 2007Land To The Rear Of Welton House, Lime Kiln Way, Lincoln , LN2 4WH
Received 15 Nov 2007Land Adjoining And Including 25 Manby Street Lincoln LN5 8NW
Received 9 Nov 2007Land Adjacent To Units 13-15, Sunningdale Trading Estate, Dixon Close, Lincoln.
Received 15 Nov 200726 St Mark Street, Lincoln, LN5 7TP
Received 16 Oct 2007Records 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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