Lincolnshire

Lincoln planning data

3,137 planning applications from Lincoln. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

3,137

Applications

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Enforcement notices

3,364

Appeals

1998–2026

Date range

What Lincoln decides

Lincoln has approved 93.95% of the 2,531 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is at or above the middle of the pack (89.18%).

93.95%

Approved, of 2,531 decided

Median days to a decision

71.4

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Lincoln handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Tree	795	25.3%
Full	649	20.7%
Householder	530	16.9%
Other	390	12.4%
Listed building	203	6.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Lincoln actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Lincoln actually provides each one, across all 3,137 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Lincoln actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	3,137	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	3,137	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	3,137	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	3,137	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	3,137	100.0%
Status `status`	3,130	99.8%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	3,130	99.8%
Ward `ward`	3,130	99.8%
Case officer `case_officer`	3,112	99.2%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	3,057	97.4%
Decision `decision`	2,993	95.4%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,993	95.4%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,984	95.1%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,976	94.9%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	2,797	89.2%
Standardised type `standard_type`	2,140	68.2%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,130	67.9%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	2,130	67.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	2,088	66.6%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,948	62.1%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,242	39.6%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	44	1.4%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	44	1.4%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Lincoln's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=309&limit=5"

Council id for Lincoln is 309. Full API reference for developers →

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