Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
19,194 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 1998 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
The Wildlife Birchwood Avenue Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0JB
Received 31 Mar 2014The Bowling Green 324 Wragby Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4QD
Received 31 Mar 201424 Portland Street Lincoln LN5 7JX
Received 1 Apr 2014111 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7PY
Received 27 Mar 2014Land At Sunningdale Trading Estate Dixon Close Lincoln LN6 7UB
Received 27 Mar 201493 Elsham Crescent Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 3YQ
Received 26 Mar 201485 Carholme Road Lincoln LN1 1RT
Received 27 Mar 2014Bifrangi UK Ltd Spa Road Lincoln LN2 5TB
Received 24 Mar 20148 West Bight Lincoln LN1 3BE
Received 17 Mar 2014Land Adjacent To 23 Roman Wharf Lincoln LN1 1SN
Received 14 Mar 201439 Grange Crescent Lincoln LN6 8BT
Received 13 Mar 201448 Carholme Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1ST
Received 12 Mar 201412 Sheridan Close Lincoln Lincoln LN2 4JX
Received 12 Mar 2014Greestone Centre Lindum Road Lincoln LN2 1PF
Received 24 Feb 2014Flat 254 High Street Lincoln LN2 1HW
Received 24 Feb 2014Flat 7 34 Silver Street Lincoln LN2 1EH
Received 21 Feb 2014Unit 16, The Carlton Centre 21 Carlton Mews Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4FJ
Received 11 Feb 20141-130 Shuttleworth House Lincoln LN2 5DX
Received 11 Feb 2014Flat 2 36 Monks Road Lincoln LN2 5HW
Received 28 Jan 2014120 Newark Road Lincoln LN5 8QD
Received 27 Jan 201418 Anzio Crescent Lincoln LN1 3PX
Received 27 Jan 20141 Goldcrest Close Lincoln LN6 0UX
Received 16 Jan 2014Former Dunelm Proctors Road Lincoln LN2 4LA
Received 6 Jan 2014Robins And Day Limited 471 High Street Lincoln LN5 8JG
Received 24 Dec 2013Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage