Plan for homes on former abattoir in Gedney Hill refused by South Holland District Council
Plans for up to four homes on the site of a former abattoir have been turned down.
D Allen and Son Butchers had lodged a proposal to put properties on the Old Abattoir Site, Highstock Lane, Gedney Hill.
This was an outline plan – with the details due to be decided later down the line, but the applicant promised four ‘high quality individual homes’.
However, planners at South Holland District Council ruled that the site is on land classed as ‘open countryside’ and that there was no need demonstrated for putting homes in that location.
In refusing the plan, officers stated: “The proposal is for residential development in the countryside. Such forms of development are generally unsustainable by definition and contrary to the provisions both of the Local Plan and of National Policy which seek to direct residential development to more sustainable locations and by so doing protect the countryside from harmful and inappropriate development.
“No special circumstances have been submitted to justify development in this location, and given that the Council can demonstrate a housing land supply far in excess of the five year threshold, there are no grounds on the basis of housing need to support development in this location.
“On such basis the proposal would conflict with the provisions of the development plan for South East Lincolnshire and with national policy and planning permission should be refused.”
Planning documents state that the site has been commercially used and owned by the applicant since the 1970s. The section in question was the old slaughterhouse and the existing business still operates from the other side of the road at number 75.