Poplar Farm Barrowby Road Grantham NG31 8AF

S08/1231Outline Planning Permission with EIAApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 June 2011

Council decision: Approved Conditionally

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

Proposal

A mixed use urban extension comprising up to 1800 dwellings, community facilities, (including a primary school, community centre, retail use classes A1, A2, A3 & A5, doctor's surgery and elderly person's accommodation) and associated open space (including new playing fields, facilities and changing rooms, children's play areas, informal networks of open space and allotments) and a new road and a new road bridge to complete the Pennine Way Link.

Received: 30 June 2009
Council: South Kesteven District Council

ReceivedReceived30 Jun
ValidatedValidated30 Jun
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided23 Jun

Decided in 723 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at Poplar Farm Barrowby Road Grantham NG31 8AF. South Kesteven has handled 685 applications of this type. This one was decided in 723 days, 95 weeks longer than South Kesteven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 7 other applications at this address. We hold 2,134 applications in total for the NG31 postcode area.

85% of outline applications at South Kesteven District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: NG31 8AF
Application type: Outline Planning Permission with EIA
Scale / size: Large
Number of dwellings: 1800

Planning application dates

Date validated: 30 June 2009

Additional information

Documents: 2

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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2 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: South Kesteven

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