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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
19,190 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
13 Doddington Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7EX
Received 15 Jan 2003355 High Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7BN
Received 14 Jan 200348 Grange Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8DA
Received 8 Jan 2003Binns, 226-231, High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AY
Received 26 Mar 200318 Corporation Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1HN
Received 14 Feb 2003Land At Mawers Farm, Long Leys Road, Lincoln
Received 27 Oct 2004Anglian Water Pumping Station, Keddington Avenue, Lincoln.
Received 25 Mar 20041 Wyton Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0SW
Received 27 Mar 200341 Glenarm Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 9TX
Received 25 Mar 2003154 Newland Street West, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1QE
Received 3 Dec 2002The Old Chapel, Croft Street, Lincoln
Received 16 Dec 2002143 Boultham Park Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7SE
Received 28 Nov 2002Co-Op, 16 Saltergate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1DG
Received 18 Nov 200267 Addison Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4LH
Received 4 Dec 200225 Manor Leas Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8DE
Received 28 Nov 2002307 Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3XD
Received 18 Nov 2002Rear Of 107 To 115 Outer Circle Drive Lincoln
Received 14 Nov 2002Lincoln College, Monks Road, Lincoln LN2 5HQ
Received 19 Dec 2002102 Westwick Drive, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7RN
Received 12 Nov 200214 Bruce Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1RN
Received 11 Nov 2002St Andrews Villas, St Andrews Place, Lincoln.
Received 15 Nov 20023A, St. Johns Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3DR
Received 6 Nov 2002260 West Parade, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1LY
Received 6 Nov 200217 Camdon Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8SG
Received 15 Nov 2002Records 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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