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First Floor Offices 3 - 5 Eastgate Louth Lincolnshire LN11 9NB

00072/26/ACDPrior Approval Comm to dwellingDecided
Outline / PiP

Decided on 13 April 2026

Council decision: Not required

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Determination of whether or not prior approval is required for the (a) transport and impacts of the development, particularly to ensure safe site access; (b) contamination risks in relation to the building; (c) flooding risks in relation to the building; (d) impacts of noise from commercial premises on the intended occupiers of the development; (e) where- (i) the building is located in a conservation area and (ii) the development involves a change of use of the whole or part of the ground floor, the impact of that change of use on the character or sustainability of the conservation area; (f) the provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses; (g) the impact on intended occupiers of the development of the introduction of residential use in an area the authority considers to be important for general or heavy industry, waste management, storage and distribution, or a mix of such uses; and (h) where the development involves the loss of services provided by (i) a registered nursery, or (ii) a health centre maintained under section 2 or 3 of the National Health Service Act 2002(a), the impact on the location provision of the type of services lost for the change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from a use falling within Class E (commercial, business and service) of Schedule 2 to the Use Classes Order to a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses) of Schedule 1 to that Order.

Received
20 January 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 24 October 2026
Ward
Priory And St James Ward
Agent
Lincs Design Consultancy Ltd,
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.24 Mar
  4. Target20 Apr
  5. Decided13 Apr

Decided in 49 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at First Floor Offices 3 - 5 Eastgate Louth Lincolnshire LN11 9NB. East Lindsey has handled 693 applications of this type. The site is in the Louth conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Priory And St James Ward. We hold 1,235 applications in total for the LN11 postcode area.

94% of outline applications at East Lindsey District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LN11 9NB
Application type
Prior Approval Comm to dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Louth

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2026
Consultation expiry
24 March 2026
Consultation start
3 March 2026
Consultation end
24 March 2026
Last date for comments
24 March 2026
Target decision date
20 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lincs Design Consultancy Ltd,
Agent address
12 Vickers Lane, LOUTH, Lincolnshire. LN11 9PJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 March 2026
Site notice end
24 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: East Lindsey

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