Plans for 40 new homes in Pinchbeck have been submitted.
Keston Fields Ltd wants to add to the 100 homes it has nearly completed on the former Keston Nursery off Mill Green Road.
It has already been granted outline planning permission for 13 homes in 2023.
But now the developer wants to build 40 on a bigger portion of land which has been used as the construction compound.
It would be accessed off a new road on the estate, Farnborough Close.
Documents submitted with the application state: “Although the site is presently outside the settlement boundary for Pinchbeck the recent development of the 100 dwellings to the north and east and the extant permission on the application site should result in an amendment to the settlement boundary.
“With the expansion of the employment site to the south, the application site is now largely surrounded by development and forms part of the developed footprint of the settlement.
“The application site cannot be considered to be in a rural setting, other than by reference to an out-of-date settlement boundary that fails to show the permission for 100 dwellings.”
When outline permission for 13 homes was passed by South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee in September 2023, Coun Sophie Hutchinson stated she was concerned it was an attempt by the developer to get more homes on to the site and had ‘breached the trust of local people’.
“You can argue the 100 limit has already been met and the principle for further development on site is unacceptable,” she said. “I wouldn’t like to see this replicated on other developments.”
Planning officer Phil Norman responded that it was a ‘good point’ but that the situation was unusual enough to not set a precedent.
“In 25 years I’ve not come across it before and in our opinion this is not going to be something that’s replicated regularly,” he said.
The latest application is listed as to be decided by March 4 on South Holland District Council’s website.
