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Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
SKPR-278 (GR3-H1): Spitalgate Heath - Garden Village (Mixed Use Allocation)
Representation ID: 3819
Received: 28/08/2025
Respondent: National Trust
Heritage:
• Grade I Listed Belton House with a number of Listed Buildings and structures associated with the house
• Grade I Listed Grantham House within central Grantham.
• Grade I Listed Woolsthorpe Manor within Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth.
Landscape Character:
The potential allocation sites fall within Landscape Character Areas
We have concerns that this development site, and proposed site SKPR-278, given the indicative number being 3,700 dwellings and 11ha of employment land, may detrimentally affect the significance, character and setting of Belton House and the Registered Park and Garden. The National Trust believes that the proposed allocation sites would likely be visible from key viewpoints at Belton House and the surrounding parkland
The extensive scale of the proposed sites, the impression from Belton House and parkland may well be of large-scale urbanisation which would adversely affect their views and setting and the overall character landscape.
Conclusion:
The potential allocation sites would therefore appear not comply with the following national and local policies
The National Trust therefore objects to the proposed allocation sites SKPR-65 and SKPR-278 and would ask that you identify other areas for the proposed housing and employment which would not compromise the setting of the nationally important heritage site.
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Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
SKPR-65 (GR3-H4): Prince William of Gloucester Barracks (Mixed Use Allocation)
Representation ID: 3820
Received: 28/08/2025
Respondent: National Trust
Heritage:
• Grade I Listed Belton House with a number of Listed Buildings and structures associated with the house
• Grade I Listed Grantham House within central Grantham.
• Grade I Listed Woolsthorpe Manor within Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth.
Landscape Character:
The potential allocation sites fall within Landscape Character Areas
Heritage and Landscape Impacts:
Regarding site proposed allocation at site SKPR-65 - indicative unit numbers up to 3000 including employment generating area of 8ha, given the extent of the site and the potential impacts on the Belton Estate, The National Trust welcomes the decrease in the indicative number of dwellings from 4000 to 3000 dwellings.
The extensive scale of the proposed sites, the impression from Belton House and parkland may well be of large-scale urbanisation which would adversely affect their views and setting and the overall character landscape.
Conclusion:
The potential allocation sites would therefore appear not comply with the following national and local policies
The National Trust therefore objects to the proposed allocation sites SKPR-65 and SKPR-278 and would ask that you identify other areas for the proposed housing and employment which would not compromise the setting of the nationally important heritage site.
