Shopfront windows and door at Icing Cabin, 15 Waltham Road, Grimsby
Summary of planning committee decision
Decided by North East Lincs Planning Committee on 7 Jan 2026.
The site and its setting
The bakery occupies a mid-terraced commercial building in a local centre and lies within the Scartho Conservation Area.
“The site is located within Scartho Conservation Area. RELEVANT PLANNING HISTORY DM/0573/24/FUL - Replace existing timber shop front with new uPVC shopfront - Refused. RELEVANT PLANNING POLICIES AND BACKGROUND PAPERS National Planning Policy Framework (2023) NPPF12 - Achieving well designed places NPPF15 - Conserv. & enhance the natural environ. NPPF16 - Conserv. & enhance the historic environ.”
Officer report
Consultation responses
The Heritage Officer objected, while Highways and Environmental Health raised no objections and no neighbour representations were received.
“The development plan for the area is comprised of the North East Lincolnshire Local Plan 2013-2032 (Adopted 2018). REPRESENTATIONS RECEIVED Consultees Heritage - Any works in a conservation area should seek to preserve or enhance the character and appearance of that conservation area. The replacement of traditional wooden windows and doors with aluminium ones has an immediate and usually negative impact on any historic building. Aluminium is not a historic building material.”
Officer report
Who spoke
The ward councillor supported approval, citing deteriorated timber, similar nearby shopfronts and inconsistent decisions about materials.
Members’ debate
Members debated heritage concerns, the condition of the existing timber, nearby shopfronts, consistency and whether aluminium would harm the conservation area.
“Councillor Pettigrew said that it was important to recognise conservation areas and the council’s heritage officer was right to raise the concerns they had. He said that the shop front as it was, was not enhancing the conservation area and aluminium did look smart. Councillor Pettigrew said that whilst he thought the process was right, in that the council’s…”
Minutes
The vote
The committee voted 10 to 1 in favour of approving the application with conditions.
“RESOLVED – That the application be approved with conditions.”
“(Note - the committee voted 10 for 1 against for the application to be approved.)”
Minutes
The committee’s decision
The application was approved with conditions because members considered the proposal would preserve the conservation area and would not harm it.
“[name withheld] sought clarification that the reason for the proposal to approve the application was that they felt that the proposal would preserve the conservation area and would not have a detrimental effect on it.”
Minutes
The members' reasons
The members' reasons are quoted from the minutes above, under “The committee’s decision”.
Sources
- North East Lincs Planning Committee minutes, 7 January 2026
- Agenda and papers (council website)
Source: Plota analysis of North East Lincs's committee minutes and officer report. Quotations are the council's own words; headings and summaries are Plota's.
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- Committee
- North East Lincs Planning Committee
- Council
- North East Lincs
- Date
- Wednesday 7 January 2026
- Recommendation
- Officers recommended refusal
- Committee decided
- Approved, against officer advice
- Minutes
- The council's minutes
- Meeting
- Agenda and papers (council website)
- Application
- The application (council website)
- All decisions
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This committee's year
22 decisions in the 12 months to this meeting, 1 against officer advice.
Source: Plota analysis of the committee's minutes.