South Thoresby Quarry, Greenfield Lane, South Thoresby

PL/0010/25County Matter Mineral ApplicationApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 3 December 2025

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

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

Proposal

To vary conditions 5 and 15A of planning permission (E)N163/2338/14 for a revision to the restoration profile of the quarry to ensure the safety of historic chalk faces and associated minor updates to the approved scheme of restoration landscaping

Submitted: 5 March 2025
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: Lincolnshire County Council
Ward: Louth Wolds

ReceivedSubmitted5 Mar
ValidatedValidated5 Mar
Consult.Consultation8 Oct
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided3 Dec

Decided in 273 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a planning application at South Thoresby Quarry, Greenfield Lane, South Thoresby. Lincolnshire has handled 209 applications of this type. This one was decided in 273 days, 33 weeks longer than Lincolnshire's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Louth Wolds.

93% of all applications at Lincolnshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type: County Matter Mineral Application
Scale / size: Small
Parish: SWABY GROUP
District: East Lindsey District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 March 2025
Consultation expiry: 8 October 2025
Consultation end: 8 October 2025
Committee meeting: 1 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 4245 Park Approach Thorpe Park Leeds LS15 8GB

Additional information

Documents: 20

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

National Landscape (AONB): Lincolnshire Wolds
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas and brownfield registers.

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, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, 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

© 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.

Source: Lincolnshire

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