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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
19,187 approved · 1,760 refused · 754 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Waltham Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 0SD
Received 30 Jun 200042 Spring Hill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 1HB
Received 9 Jun 200023 St. Margarets Gardens, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8BG
Received 8 Jun 200025 Caistor Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3QA
Received 6 Jun 200011 Swanholme Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 3DE
Received 5 Jun 200072 Grange Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8DA
Received 5 Jun 2000Boultham Park House, Rookery Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7PH
Received 30 May 200021 St. Peters Avenue, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7QG
Received 26 May 2000Land On Deacon Road To North Of 1 Bishops Road, Lincoln
Received 1 Sept 20038 Crane Grove Lincoln LN6 7SN
Received 29 Aug 200344 Lansdowne Avenue Lincoln LN6 7PU
Received 11 Sept 2003103 Yarborough Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3NE
Received 2 Aug 19995 Chancery Close, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 8SD
Received 30 Jul 1999Co-Op Warehouse, Proctors Road, Lincoln.
Received 26 Jul 1999311 Wolsey Way, Lincoln. (Also Known As Unit 7 Nettleham Road Shopping Centre)
Received 21 Jul 19991 Jarvis House Jarvis Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 0EA
Received 16 Jul 199910 Steep Hill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1LT
Received 19 Jul 1999B O C Ltd, Dixon Way, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN6 7DD
Received 12 Jul 1999Lincoln Co-Operative Society (Previously Wrights Lincoln Ltd) Outer Circle Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4HW
Received 12 Jul 1999474-475 High Street, Lincoln
Received 12 Jul 1999Save Petrol, Monks Road, Lincoln.
Received 12 Jul 19992 Bruce Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1RN
Received 14 Aug 20014 Rivermead Close Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 8FD
Received 8 Jan 200127 Wragby Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 4PA
Received 20 Dec 2000Records 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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