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8 Corporation Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1HN

2025/0648/PAMAClass MA Prior ApprovalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 January 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Req and Approved With ConDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Determination as to whether prior approval is required for the change of use of first floor, second floor and third floor from offices (Use Class E) to 12 no. apartments (Use Class C3).

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
Carholme
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated24 Nov
  3. Consult.25 Dec
  4. Target20 Jan
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 44 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 8 Corporation Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1HN. Lincoln has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 4 weeks longer than Lincoln's typical decision time. The site is in the Cathedral and City Centre conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Carholme. We hold 1,443 applications in total for the LN2 postcode area.

97% of outline 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
LN2 1HN
Application type
Class MA Prior Approval
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
12

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 November 2025
Consultation expiry
25 December 2025
Consultation start
4 December 2025
Consultation end
25 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
25 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 December 2025
Last date for comments
25 December 2025
Target decision date
20 January 2026
Permission expires
7 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
BPM - ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
Suite 1 The Lawns Union Road Lincoln LN1 3BU

Planning decision

Case officer
Marie Smyth
Statutory period
57 days

Additional information

Documents
16
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

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