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PL/0069/26 - Lawful Development Certificate Refused

Proposal

For a Certificate of Lawful Use for installation of an electrical load bank housed within a 20-foot high-cube ISO shipping container (approx. 6.06m x 2.44m x 2.90m), on a small reinforced concrete pad on existing operational land within the anaerobic digestion facility, approximately 18m south of th... Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
18 Aug 2026
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Refused
9 Sept 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 9 Sept 2026 · Last checked 20 Oct 2026

Site constraints 6

Agricultural land, grade 2
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 3. 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.
Registered park or garden about 8 m away: Scrivelsby Court
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Lion Gateway, Grade II*, about 59 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 1 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Priority habitat about 5 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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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Important details

Application type
Lawful Development Certificate
Validated
18 Aug 2026
Parish
SCRIVELSBY
Case officer
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Decision
Refused
Decision date
9 Sept 2026
Applicant
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Agent
Callum Wheeler

How this decision compares

Decided in 22 days from validation, 30 days faster than Lincolnshire County Council's median of 52 for lawful development certificates. Refused, as 17% of lawful development certificates here are.

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83%approved
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