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19,194 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lincoln Crown Court The Castle Castle Hill Lincoln LN1 3GA
Received 28 Nov 2013Lloyds TSB Bank Plc 202 High Street Lincoln LN5 7AP
Received 29 May 2014Lloyds TSB Bank Plc 202 High Street Lincoln LN5 7AP
Received 29 May 2014103 Uffington Avenue Lincoln LN6 0AQ
Received 27 May 201420 Hazelwood Avenue Lincoln LN6 0NW
Received 23 May 20141 Broadway Close Lincoln LN2 1SW
Received 18 Aug 2014Tritton Retail Park Tritton Road Lincoln LN6 7AN
Received 15 Aug 2014Martin McColls 48 Sincil Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7ET
Received 3 Mar 20149 Somersby Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 8AF
Received 18 Mar 20145 Mainwaring Road Lincoln LN2 4BL
Received 18 Mar 2014Land At The Beeches Skellingthorpe Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0EN
Received 17 Mar 2014Burton Road Methodist Church 175 Burton Road Lincoln LN1 3LW
Received 14 Jan 2014Yarborough Leisure Centre Riseholme Road Lincoln LN1 3SP
Received 4 Jul 2014Bailgate Methodist Church Bailgate Lincoln LN1 3AR
Received 5 Mar 20145 Monks Leys Terrace Lincoln LN2 5JG
Received 27 Feb 201447 Silver Street Lincoln LN2 1EH
Received 11 Dec 2013Lincoln Motorhouse 22 Clayton Road Lincoln LN5 8RG
Received 10 Dec 201334 Glenwood Grove Lincoln LN6 7BA
Received 5 Jun 20142 Colegrave Street Lincoln LN5 8DW
Received 2 Jun 2014Fortuna School Kingsdown Road Lincoln LN6 Ofb
Received 3 Jun 201437 Webb Street Lincoln LN5 8DL
Received 29 May 2014The Priory City Of Lincoln Academy Skellingthorpe Road Lincoln LN6 0EP
Received 2 Jun 20141 Exchange Arcade Cornhill Lincoln LN5 7HJ
Received 1 May 201423 Wellington Street Lincoln LN1 1PN
Received 14 May 2014Records 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