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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
19,203 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
350 Hykeham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8BP
Received 2 Mar 2001Gift Shop, 5 Bailgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AE
Received 7 Feb 200155 Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3JY
Received 25 Oct 2000University Of Lincs & Humberside, Lincoln Campus (S.E. Quad) Brayford Pool, Campus Way, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7TS
Received 24 May 2000Former East Midlands Electricity Depot, Tritton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7RS
Received 24 May 2000Former East Midlands Electricity Depot, Tritton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7RS
Received 24 May 2000The Carlton Centre Outer Circle Road, Lincoln.
Received 23 May 20006 Northgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1QS
Received 28 Apr 2000128 Wolsey Way, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4TW
Received 17 Apr 2000St Mary's School, 1 Wragby Road, Lincoln
Received 13 Apr 200047 Steep Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1LU
Received 11 Apr 200030 Clive Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7UH
Received 2 May 2000661A Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8SA
Received 10 Apr 2000203 Yarborough Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3NQ
Received 27 Oct 1999Former Courtaulds Unit, Crofton Close, Lincoln.
Received 27 Oct 1999South Part Of Garden Of 203 Yarborough Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3NQ
Received 27 Oct 199917 Eastgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AA
Received 26 Oct 199996 Shearwater Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0XA
Received 25 Oct 199951 Newport, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3DN
Received 25 Oct 1999Land Adjacent To Victoria Public House, Union Road, Lincoln
Received 18 Oct 1999Greestone House, Greestone Place, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1PP
Received 12 Oct 19995 Christs Hospital Terrace, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1LY
Received 26 Oct 1999Carlton Centre, Outer Circle Road, Lincoln
Received 14 Oct 1999Car Park Between Hungate And West Parade.
Received 4 Oct 1999Records 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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