The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
An eight-hectare nursery in Pinchbeck is the subject of a planning application for 200 homes.
Nursery Fresh Plants operates from the site in Mill Green Road. Northampton firm AMJ Construction Ltd is seeking outline planning permission for the development.
A design and access statement with South Holland District Council says: “Having regard to the location of the site, the majority of the services to be found in Pinchbeck can be easily accessed on foot through quiet housing areas making this site unquestionably more appropriate for development than those sites currently being promoted by the joint strategic planning committee through the emerging local plan process.”
The estimated breakdown of housing will be 133 for sale, 33 for social rent and 33 for intermediate (such as shared equity). Proposed access would be via Mill Green Road, which would be widened.
A traffic assessment report says: “The development will generate up to 143 two-way vehicle trips in a peak hour.
“Approximately 90 per cent of this traffic will route north along Mill Green North, and ten per cent will route south. Approximately 70 per cent of this will route to and from Spalding Road (S) and Wardentree Lane.”
Michael Hull, managing director of AMJ Construction and a relative of Nursery Fresh Plants senior staff members Peter and Christopher Hull, said of the Pinchbeck’s firm’s future if the development goes ahead: “There are no plans at the moment but it would relocate.”
He confirmed that it would remain in South Holland.
Pinchbeck Parish Council is supportive of the site being redeveloped.
