Asperton Farm House, Asperton Road, Wigtoft, Boston PE20 2PT Data via plota.co.uk

B/26/0006 - Prior Approval-Ag to Dwelling House Approved

Proposal

Application under Schedule 2, Part 3 Class R of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 for a proposed change of use of agricultural outbuilding to Antique and Curiosity shop & storage Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:52

Application progress

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Received

9 Jan 2026

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Consultation

13 Jan 2026

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Approved

4 Mar 2026

Approved on 4 Mar 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents 4

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.

Also on the record

National infrastructure project: Grimsby to Walpole, at pre-application.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate 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

Council: Boston
Application type: Prior Approval-Ag to Dwelling House
Postcode: PE20 2PT
Received: 9 Jan 2026
Validated: 9 Jan 2026
Ward: Five Village Ward
Parish: Wigtoft
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 6 Mar 2026
Decision: Not required
Decision date: 4 Mar 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Freehold owner: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 54 days from validation, 6 days faster than Boston's median of 60 for commercial premises. Approved, as 95% of commercial premises here are.

This one54d

Council60d

UK56d

43%decided within 8 weeks

95%approved

48decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial premises decided by Boston in the last twelve months, from validation. Boston decision record →