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3,230 approved · 125 refused · 263 withdrawn.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: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land off Thompson's Lane, Fosdyke
Received Not publishedTheddlethorpe Gas Terminal, Theddlethorpe St Helen, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, LN12 1NQ
Received Not publishedHighways Depot, Hemingby Lane, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, LN9 5PN
Received Not publishedUniversity Academy Holbeach (was St Guthlac School), Postland Road, Crowland, Lincolnshire, PE6 0JA
Received Not publishedOsgodby County Primary School, Main Street, Osgodby
Received Not publishedStickney Church of England Primary School, Main Road, Stickney, Lincolnshire, PE22 8AX
Received Not publishedUniversity of Lincoln Holbeach Campus, National Centre For Food Manufacturing, Park Road, Holbeach
Received Not publishedLandfill Site, Tattershall Road, Kirkby on Bain, Lincolnshire, LN10 6YN
Received Not publishedWilliam Stukeley C of E Primary School, Spalding Road, Holbeach
Received Not publishedTiber Road, North Hykeham, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Received Not publishedLand between the A46 Hykeham roundabout and A15 Sleaford Road roundabout
Received Not publishedLand between Fiskerton Airfield and Candecca Gathering Station Fiskerton
Received Not publishedStowgate & Wards Farm, Stowgate Farm, Deeping St James
Received Not publishedSt Lawrence School, Bowl Alley Lane, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, LN9 5EJ
Received Not publishedCleanTech UK Limited, Hemswell Business Park, Hemswell Cliff, DN21 5TU
Received Not publishedMid UK Recycling Ltd, Caythorpe Heath Lane, Caythorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3EW
Received Not publishedThe Richmond School, Richmond Drive, Skegness, PE25 3SH
Received Not publishedWestville Farm, Westville, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE22 7HR
Received Not publishedDeeping St James Community Primary School, Hereward Way, Deeping St James, Lincolnshire, PE6 8PZ
Received Not publishedStowgate Farm, 13, Stowgate, Deeping St James, Lincolnshire, PE6 8RW
Received Not publishedFour Acre Farm, South Fen Road, Bourne
Received Not publishedLincoln St Francis Special School, Wickenby Crescent, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3TJ
Received Not publishedAlford Primary School, Hanby Lane, Alford, Lincolnshire, LN13 9BJ
Received Not publishedLaburnum House, Main Road, Langrick, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE22 7AN
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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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