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Empty Lower Ground Floor Office Autumn Park Business Centre Autumn Park Dysart Road Grantham Lincolnshire NG31 7EU

S25/1124Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 10 September 2025

Council decision: Approved conditionally

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of the lower ground floor suite from office (use class E) to a driving test centre (use class sui generis).

Received
18 June 2025
Public comments
4
Ward
Grantham Barrowby Gate Ward
  1. Received18 Jun
  2. Validated15 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target9 Sep
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Empty Lower Ground Floor Office Autumn Park Business Centre Autumn Park Dysart Road Grantham Lincolnshire NG31 7EU. South Kesteven has handled 3,414 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than South Kesteven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Grantham Barrowby Gate Ward. We hold 2,134 applications in total for the NG31 postcode area.

91% of full 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 7EU
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Grantham Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 July 2025
Consultation expiry
10 September 2025
Consultation end
14 August 2025
Neighbour consultation end
10 September 2025
Target decision date
9 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Newmark
Agent address
12th Floor 45 Church Street Birmingham B3 2RT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14021645
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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.

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: South Kesteven

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