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46 Sibthorp Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7SH

2026/0182/C4Change of Use to C4Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 May 2026

Council decision: Granted ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)1 condition

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use from Existing HMO (Class C4) to flexible use between HMO (Class C4) and Dwelling (Class C3).

Received
31 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Park
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated31 Mar
  3. Consult.23 Apr
  4. Target27 May
  5. Decided18 May

Decided in 48 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 46 Sibthorp Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7SH. Lincoln has handled 71 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 6 days longer than Lincoln's typical decision time. The site is in the Sibthorp conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Park. 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 7SH
Application type
Change of Use to C4
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 March 2026
Consultation expiry
25 April 2026
Consultation start
2 April 2026
Consultation end
23 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
2 April 2026
Neighbour consultation end
25 April 2026
Last date for comments
25 April 2026
Target decision date
27 May 2026
Permission expires
18 May 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 April 2026
Site notice end
24 April 2026

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
22

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)
  • Conservation area: Sibthorp

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 (20)

flood storage 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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