Lincoln Castle Castle Hill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AA

2025/0692/CCCApproved

Approved on 4 December 2025

Council decision: Granted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

To retain two freestanding dragon sculptures (retrospective).

Received: 14 November 2025
Council: Lincoln City Council
Ward: Castle

ReceivedReceived14 Nov
ValidatedValidated14 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided4 Dec

Decided in 20 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Lincoln Castle Castle Hill Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3AA. Lincoln has handled 1,104 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lincoln's typical decision time. The site is in the Cathedral and City Centre conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Castle. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the LN1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: LN1 3AA
Parish: Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated: 14 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer: Jessica Cotter

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Cathedral and City Centre
Scheduled monument: Lincoln Castle (except modern buildings)
Heritage at Risk Register: Cathedral and City Centre, Lincoln
Flood zone 1: Low 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 (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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.

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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7 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Lincoln

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