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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Lincolnshire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,230 approved · 125 refused · 263 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Ropsley Quarry, Long Hollow Lane, Ropsley, Grantham, Lincolnshire
Received Not publishedSpalding St Paul's Community Primary and Nursery School, Queen's Road, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 2JQ
Received Not publishedLand south of North Kelsey Road, Caistor
Received Not publishedSt Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Woad Farm Road, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 0EF
Received Not publishedLand west of Tattershall Road, Tattershall Road, Kirkby on Bain, Lincolnshire
Received Not publishedCopper Hill Quarry, B6403, High Dike, Ancaster, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3PY
Received Not publishedReed Point, Spalding Road, Sutterton, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE20 2EP
Received Not publishedWest Deeping Quarry, Tallington, Lincolnshire
Received Not publishedMiddle Rasen Primary School, North Street, Middle Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN8 3TS
Received Not publishedFormer Usher Junior School Site, Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln
Received Not publishedGosberton House School, 11 Westhorpe Road, Gosberton, Spalding
Received Not publishedThe Willows, Lincoln Road, Saxilby, Lincolnshire, LN1 2NF
Received Not publishedWest Deeping Quarry, King Street, West Deeping
Received Not publishedCopper Hill Quarry, B6403, High Dike, Ancaster, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3PY
Received Not publishedHarmston Quarry, Tower Lane, Harmston, Lincolnshire
Received Not publishedThe Priory Ruskin Academy, The Priory Ruskin Academy, Queensway, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 9RA
Received Not publishedCopper Hill Quarry, B6403, High Dike, Ancaster, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3PY
Received Not publishedNorton Bottoms Quarry, Stapleford
Received Not publishedProposed Skillington Quarry, Land to the East and West of Crabtree Road, Colsterworth
Received Not published35 St Catherines, Lincoln
Received Not publishedNew Earth Solutions (West) Ltd, Copper Hill Industrial Estate, Ermine Street, Barkston Heath
Received Not publishedUnit 8, Chapel Farm, Hop Pole, Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire, PE11 3DS
Received Not publishedCranwell Primary School, Cranwell Avenue, Cranwell, Lincolnshire, NG34 8HH
Received Not publishedLaffey's Ltd, The New House, Broad Fen Lane, Claypole
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Lincolnshire County 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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