Smaller plan for new industrial site turned down

Plans to build a new industrial site bordering two Lincolnshire villages have been rejected.

Boston Borough Council has refused an application from Towermist to build a range of buildings on land off Station Road, near Sutterton and Algarkirk.

A proposal was initially submitted for a larger site to include another field to the north-east, which received 120 formal objections.

The scheme was revised to exclude the extra field, reducing the area from more than nine hectares to about 4.4 hectares, but it was rejected by the planning committee.

Addressing the committee, local resident David Bradley said the development "represents unwarranted and unjustified industrialisation of the countryside."

Councillor James Cantwell said: "I'm as sure as I can be that this application does not belong in this rural scene, and never before have I seen two villages so united on a shared issue."

The applicant's agent, Lewis Smith, of Robert Doughty Consultancy, noted that the application was for a site about half the size of the original proposal, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

"Whilst we appreciate that members of the public are unlikely to welcome new industrial development, it is clear from the report that there are now far fewer objections to the revised proposal when compared with the original scheme," he said.

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