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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19,201 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Simons Group Of Properties 991 Doddington Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3SE
Received 15 May 2006178 Newark Road Lincoln LN5 8QJ
Received 8 Jan 20071 Deacon Road, Lincoln, LN2 4JB.
Received 30 Oct 20062 Deacon Road, Lincoln, LN2 4LE.
Received 30 Oct 2006Garden Land At 107 Boultham Park Road, Lincoln
Received 14 Nov 200670 Boultham Park Road Lincoln LN6 7BD
Received 26 Jul 20067A Curle Avenue Lincoln LN2 4AN
Received 27 Apr 200670 Boultham Park Road Lincoln LN6 7BD
Received 8 May 2006Listers Toyota Outer Circle Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4LD
Received 18 Apr 2006Lincoln Central Railway Station, St Mary's Street, Lincoln
Received 13 Apr 200643C Carholme Road, Lincoln, LN1 1RN
Received 27 Mar 200646 Mons Road Lincoln LN1 3UG
Received 27 Mar 200617 Tudor Road Lincoln LN6 3LL
Received 21 Mar 2006Garden Land At 107 Boultham Park Road Lincoln LN6 7SE
Received 28 Apr 2006Plot 9, Greenbank Drive, Lincoln
Received 10 Mar 200627 Cottesmore Road Lincoln LN6 3RH
Received 9 Mar 200633 Milton Street Lincoln LN5 8PU
Received 16 Mar 2006Former RM Wright Premises, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln
Received 2 Mar 2006458 - 459 High Street, Lincoln, Lincs.
Received 28 Feb 200620 Silverstone Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0FW
Received 22 Feb 20063 Greestone Place Lincoln LN2 1PP
Received 20 Feb 2006Former R.M Wright Premises, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln
Received 21 Feb 2006Rear Of 3 Tennyson Street, Lincoln.
Received 14 Feb 20064 Boultham Park Road Lincoln LN6 7AY
Received 6 Feb 2006Records 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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