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40 Totnes Place Grantham Lincolnshire NG31 8XH

S25/2438Lawful Development (Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 February 2026

Council decision: Lawful DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from a residential dwelling (C3) to a children's care home (C2) for two young people

Received
17 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Grantham Arnoldfield Ward
Agent
Carter Smith Planning Consultants
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Feb
  5. Decided11 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 40 Totnes Place Grantham Lincolnshire NG31 8XH. South Kesteven has handled 685 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Grantham Arnoldfield Ward. 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 8XH
Application type
Lawful Development (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Grantham Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025
Target decision date
11 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Carter Smith Planning Consultants
Agent address
Morpeth Business Hub 17A Coopies Haugh Coopies Lane Morpeth NE61 6JN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14572352
Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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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