3 South Street Horncastle Lincolnshire LN9 6DT
Approved on 9 February 2026
Council decision: Not requiredDelegated (officer decision)
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 dwellinghouse; (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
- 9 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Ward
- Horncastle Ward
- Agent
- Lincs Design Consultancy Ltd,
- ReceivedReceived9 Dec
- ValidatedValidated15 Dec
- Consult.Consultation20 Jan
- TargetTarget Date9 Feb
- DecidedDecided9 Feb
Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 3 South Street Horncastle Lincolnshire LN9 6DT. East Lindsey has handled 693 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days. The site is in the Horncastle conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Horncastle Ward. We hold 1,096 applications in total for the LN9 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
- LN9 6DT
- Application type
- Prior Approval Comm to dwelling
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Horncastle
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 20 January 2026
- Consultation start
- 29 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 20 January 2026
- Last date for comments
- 20 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 9 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 9 February 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Lincs Design Consultancy Ltd,
- Architect profile
- LINCS DESIGN CONSULTANCY LTD
- Agent address
- 12 Vickers Lane, LOUTH, Lincolnshire. LN11 9PJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 22 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 12 January 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: Horncastle
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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