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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
19,204 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear Of 112 Burton Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3LW
Received 20 Apr 20115 Winthorpe Road Doddington Park Lincoln LN6 3PG
Received 18 Apr 201130 Hawthorn Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4QX
Received 24 Mar 201115 Sturgate Close Lincoln LN6 0NY
Received 11 Mar 2011269 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1JG
Received 28 Feb 201131 Shearwater Road Lincoln LN6 0UZ
Received 25 Feb 201119 Primrose Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 9XA
Received 22 Feb 2011260 - 266 Wragby Road Lincoln LN2 4PX
Received 21 Feb 2011Saint Peter And Saint Paul Church Skellingthorpe Road Lincoln LN6 7RB
Received 18 Feb 20117 Eastcliff Road Lincoln LN2 5RU
Received 16 Feb 201115 Helsby Road Lincoln LN5 8SN
Received 7 Feb 201185 Yarborough Crescent Lincoln Lincs LN1 3NE
Received 7 Feb 2011Unit G St Marks Retail Park Lincoln LN6 7TP
Received 4 Feb 2011The Priory Academy LSST Cross O'Cliff Hill Lincoln LN5 8PW
Received 3 Feb 2011Clydesdale Bank The Regatta Unit 6 Henley Way LN6 3QR
Received 3 Feb 201120 Breedon Drive Lincoln LN1 3XA
Received 31 Jan 20112 Southcote Mews Doddington Road Lincoln LN6 7HL
Received 4 Jul 2013Warren James Jewellers Ltd 295 High Street Lincoln LN2 1AH
Received 3 May 20132 Eastcliff Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5RU
Received 2 May 2013Land At 34 Glenwood Grove Lincoln LN6 7BA
Received 29 Apr 2013Jason Rickaby Opticians, 5 Water Lane, Lincoln,LN1 1TY
Received 4 Mar 2013Land At Nettleham Road/ Lincoln Road. Lincoln Lincolnshire
Received 27 Feb 201310 Manor Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1RJ
Received 22 Oct 201262 Mount Street Lincoln LN1 3JG
Received 20 Jan 2011Records 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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