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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.
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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
19,188 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
W H Smith Ltd, Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7HE
Received 22 Jan 2001Lincoln Co-Operative Filling Station, Corner Of Outer Circle Road/Deacon Road, Lincoln
Received 19 Jan 2001280-281 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1LL
Received 17 Jan 2001Abc Windscreens, 6 Monks Way, Lincoln
Received 18 Dec 200031 Cambridge Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1LS
Received 15 Dec 200011 Geralds Close, Lincoln, LN2 4AL.
Received 4 Dec 200047 & 49 Newport, Lincoln
Received 1 Dec 2000Woolwich Plc, 292-293 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1AL
Received 27 Nov 2000Kingdom Hall, Gaunt Street, Lincoln.
Received 21 Mar 200175 West Parade, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1QL
Received 15 Nov 2000Woodfield Avenue, Nr Junction Of Aldergrove Crescent.
Received 11 Apr 200178 Newland, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1YA
Received 21 Dec 2000Ilkeston Co-Op Motor Group (Formerly Alexanders), Tritton Road, Lincoln LN6 7QY
Received 13 Nov 2000406 High Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7TE
Received 20 Nov 200093 Newark Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8NE
Received 8 Nov 2000Lincoln Fire Station, South Park Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8EL
Received 23 Nov 200044 Sincil Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 7ET
Received 13 Nov 2000Land At George Street.
Received 21 Sept 2000Land Adjacent To 69 Fulmar Road, Lincoln
Received 14 Sept 2000Scout Hut, Land To Rear Of Houses On Clarke Road, Lincoln
Received 14 Sept 20008/9 Castle Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3AA
Received 31 Jul 2000The Old Chapel 53 Croft Street Lincoln
Received 17 Apr 20033 Grasmere Way, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0YB
Received 15 Apr 2003Birchwood Junior School, Larchwood Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0NL
Received 11 Apr 2003Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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