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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
19,203 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
George Tokarski, 47 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8AS
Received 28 Apr 200013-14 Silver Street And Free School Lane Block (Lincoln Co-Operative Society Ltd).
Received 27 Apr 200029/31 Mint Street
Received 25 Apr 2000Site Of Kwik Save Building Brayford Wharf North.
Received 25 Apr 2000294 High Street, Lincoln And 1 Silver Street, Lincoln.
Received 25 Apr 20003/4 Cornhill, Lincoln
Received 18 Apr 2000Lincoln Co-Operative Society Ltd, 101 Burton Road, Lincoln
Received 19 Apr 200018 1/2 Eastgate, Lincoln, LN2 4AA
Received 4 Apr 2000Land At Manor House, Ancaster Avenue, Lincoln.
Received 4 Apr 2000Land Adjacent To Victoria Public House, Union Road, Lincoln
Received 30 Mar 2000Plot 3, St. Michael's Terrace.
Received 27 Mar 2000The Carlton Centre, Outer Circle Road.
Received 27 Apr 2000285 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7AL
Received 22 Mar 2000285 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7AL
Received 22 Mar 200071/73 Newark Road, Lincoln
Received 20 Mar 2000Lincoln Crown Court, Lincoln Castle, Lincoln
Received 6 Mar 200037-41 Ripon Street, Lincoln.
Received 3 Mar 2000Land North Of Green Lane/Ropewalk, Lincoln
Received 23 Mar 20006 Silver Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1DY
Received 9 Mar 200096 Shearwater Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0XA
Received 28 Feb 2000Queensgate House, 12 Silver Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1DY
Received 28 Feb 200015 Broughton Gardens, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8SW
Received 22 Feb 2000Lincoln Co-Operative Society Ltd, 101 Burton Road, Lincoln
Received 18 Feb 20006 Silver Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1DY
Received 17 Feb 2000Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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