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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19,203 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holmes Road/Carholme Road, Lincoln
Received 21 Apr 1999Forbouys Store 137-141 Burton Road
Received 23 Apr 1999137-141 Burton Road, Lincoln
Received 23 Apr 1999137-141 Burton Road
Received 22 Apr 1999137-141 Burton Road
Received 22 Apr 1999Methodist Homes For The Aged, Stones Place, Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0PA
Received 15 Apr 1999Land Adjoining Former Church And Churchyard Of St.Michael-On-The-Mount, Lincoln
Received 22 Apr 1999Midland Bank Plc, 221 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1TS
Received 1 Apr 199931 Sincil Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7ET
Received 24 Mar 1999The Backies, Moorland Avenue, Lincoln
Received 18 Mar 19999 Lee Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4BJ
Received 18 Mar 199937-41 Ripon Street, Lincoln, LN5 7NJ.
Received 15 Mar 199959 Hartsholme Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0HQ
Received 11 Mar 1999Unit 8, The Holiday Shop, The Stonebow Centre, Silver Street.
Received 5 Mar 1999Land To The Rear Of 142 Doddington Road
Received 3 Mar 1999John Smith & Son (Lincoln) Ltd, 26-27 Guildhall Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1TR
Received 26 Feb 199926-27 Guildhall Street, Lincoln, LN1 1TR
Received 25 Feb 199926-27 Guildhall Street, Lincoln, LN1 1TR.
Received 25 Feb 1999Former Courtaulds Building, Crofton Close, Lincoln
Received 19 Feb 199949 Westgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3BG
Received 11 Mar 199913 Swaby Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 2AH
Received 15 Feb 1999271 High Street, The Falstaff Public House, And Back Of The High Street
Received 15 Feb 1999St. Martin's First School Hungate Lincoln
Received 11 Feb 1999Land North Of Green Lane/Ropewalk.
Received 7 Jan 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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