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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19,190 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
H M Prison, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 4BD
Received 20 Jul 20056 Doddington Avenue Lincoln LN6 7EX
Received 20 Jul 200584 Great Northern Terrace, Lincoln
Received 19 Jul 20051A Gordon Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AJ
Received 27 Jul 2005350 Burton Road Lincoln LN1 3UP
Received 18 Aug 2005Former Longdales Tennis Club, Longdales Road, Lincoln, LN2 2JT
Received 13 Jul 2005Lincoln School Of Science And Technology, Cross O'Cliff Hill, Lincoln LN5 8PW
Received 19 Jul 2005Johnson Ward, Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 4AX
Received 18 Jul 2005Land To Rear Of 11 Durham Close, Lincoln.
Received 11 Jul 200532 Eastgate Lincoln LN2 1QA
Received 29 Jun 200561A Steep Hill, Lincoln, LN2 1LR
Received 8 Jul 200540 Bunkers Hill Lincoln LN2 4QP
Received 28 Jun 2005110 Rasen Lane Lincoln LN1 3HD
Received 22 Jun 2005173 Burton Road, Lincoln
Received 27 Jun 200527 Fontwell Crescent Lincoln LN6 7LE
Received 20 Jun 2005Lincoln School Of Science & Technology, Cross O'Cliff Hill, Lincoln, LN5 8PW
Received 28 Jun 2005Land At Market Stall Site, Cornhill, Lincoln.
Received 21 Jun 2005Flats 1 To 15 Newport Court, Newport, Lincoln, LN1 3DB
Received 14 Jun 2005Land To The Rear Of 142 Doddington Road, Lincoln, LN6 7HB
Received 16 May 200524-26 St Catherines, Lincoln, LN5 8LY
Received 12 Sept 200537 Caistor Road Lincoln LN6 3QA
Received 6 May 20057 West Bight Lincoln LN1 3BE
Received 27 Apr 2005Anglian Water Pumping Station, Wasdale Close, Lincoln.
Received 6 May 200558 Gregg Hall Crescent Lincoln LN6 8AH
Received 18 Apr 2005Records 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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