Railway Farm, Hobhole Bank, Old Leake, Boston, PE22 9RT Data via plota.co.uk

B/26/0268 - Full Planning Permission Awaiting decision

Proposal

Change of use from agricultural land to a mixed-use consisting of a private Gypsy and Traveller site comprising of 7no. residential pitches and laying of hardstanding, alongside the change of use of an existing building for commercial storage/business use (class E(g) - Light Industrial) Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

8 Jul 2026

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Consultation

30 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 2 Sept 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 21 Oct 2026; it is now day 90. Comments are open until 21 Oct 2026.

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Site constraints 3

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

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Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Not affected

Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 24 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Railway Farm, Hobhole Bank, Old Leake, Boston, PE22 9RT

Proposed siting of 7no residential caravans and associated works

B/26/0268

Important details

Council: Boston
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Postcode: PE22 9RT
Received: 8 Jul 2026
Validated: 8 Jul 2026
Ward: Old Leake And Wrangle Ward
Parish: Old Leake
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 2 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Robert Doughty Consultancy Limited

Decision outlook

Day 90, past the statutory target. 83% of full applications in Boston are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 7 Oct 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 4 Oct 2026.

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Day 9016 days to the predicted decision (day 106)

43%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

132decided in the last year

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