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74 Foster Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7QF

2023/0342/C4Change of Use to C4Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 6 July 2023

Council decision: Granted ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Application for change of use from existing HMO Class C4 to a flexible change of use to alternate between dwellinghouse (C3) and HMO (C4) for a period of ten years without the need to apply for planning permission.

Received
12 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Boultham
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.5 Jun
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided6 Jul

Decided in 52 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 74 Foster Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7QF. Lincoln has handled 71 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 13 days longer than Lincoln's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Boultham. We hold 1,040 applications in total for the LN5 postcode area.

97% of amendment applications at Lincoln City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LN5 7QF
Application type
Change of Use to C4
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2023
Consultation expiry
15 June 2023
Consultation start
15 May 2023
Consultation end
5 June 2023
Neighbour consultation start
15 May 2023
Neighbour consultation end
7 June 2023
Last date for comments
15 June 2023
Target decision date
11 July 2023
Permission expires
6 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 May 2023
Advertisement expiry
15 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Lincoln

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