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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19,203 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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 Higson Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3XB
Received 5 Apr 201667 Burton Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3JZ
Received 4 Apr 201653-54 Croft Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AZ
Received 4 Apr 20166 Lee Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4BH
Received 31 Mar 201679-83 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 8AA
Received 29 Mar 2016Thrifty Car & Van Rental 19-21 Chieftain Way Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7RY
Received 15 Mar 201619 Olive Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3HT
Received 26 Apr 2016Lincoln Tap House And Kitchen 1 St Pauls Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AL
Received 10 Mar 2016100 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7QB
Received 8 Mar 20169 Francis Hill Court Church Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1QJ
Received 8 Mar 2016Land At 6 Rivermead Close Lincoln LN6 8FD
Received 8 Feb 2016Lincolnshire Cooperative Society Moorland Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7QW
Received 2 Feb 2016261 Calder Road Lincoln LN5 9TJ
Received 20 Jan 20162 Keadby Close Lincoln LN6 0DZ
Received 4 Jan 201633 Hemswell Avenue Lincoln LN6 0BD
Received 18 Dec 2015Lidl Dixon Street Lincoln LN6 7DA
Received 11 Dec 20151 Midia Close Lincoln LN1 1AR
Received 24 Nov 2015Exchange Arcade Cornhill Lincoln LN5 7HJ
Received 20 Nov 2015Lincoln Cooperative Society Ltd Moorland Avenue Lincoln LN6 7QW
Received 18 Nov 2015Former Arc Car Wash And 108-116 Dixon Street Lincoln LN6 7DA
Received 9 Nov 2015Harvester Brayford Wharf North Lincoln LN1 1YW
Received 4 Nov 201518 Mill Road Lincoln LN1 3JJ
Received 3 Nov 2015Lajkonik 382 High Street Lincoln LN5 7SF
Received 30 Oct 2015Romeo Pizza 51 Clasketgate Lincoln LN2 1LA
Received 22 Oct 2015Records 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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