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Lincoln Castle Academy Riseholme Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3SP

2025/0748/FULApproved

Approved on 27 April 2026

Council decision: Granted Conditionally25 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Demolition of existing school buildings and redevelopment to provide a new educational teaching block, separate new sports hall block and Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), reconfiguration of car parking arrangements and outdoor playground areas, provision of new landscaping, temporary use of part of the playing field for school accommodation, and all associated works.

Received
17 December 2025
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 131 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Lincoln Castle Academy Riseholme Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3SP. Lincoln has handled 1,104 applications of this type. This one was decided in 131 days, 13 weeks longer than Lincoln's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the LN1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
LN1 3SP

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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.

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