Poplar Farm is located off the Barrowby Road to the north-west of Grantham town centre, which is within easy walking or cycling distance, and commuting distance of Nottingham, Lincoln and Newark. London on the main rail-line is a little over 1 hour away.
Poplar Farm is a residential-led scheme situated close to some of the area's many attractions including Belvoir Castle, Belton House and Londonthorpe Woods.
The site is owned jointly by Buckminster and Norwich Hub who are acting as master developers in a joint venture to provide serviced plots to national and regional housebuilders. If you have any construction or defect matters in your home to raise, these need to be addressed directly to the housebuilder firm you bought your house from and not with us via this website.
After receiving outline planning consent in 2011 six phases have now been sold and built out, delivering 677 new family homes and flats, including 108 affordable homes.
Topography on the site has been a challenge and an opportunity: the new Poplar Farm Primary School was opened in 2018, to a modern design, sitting proud on elevated ground. There is a feature spine of open space running through the southern phases, anticipated to be in a mature enough state in 2023 to hand over to the District Council to maintain.
The new residents continue to make a valuable addition to the population, supporting the shops and services Grantham has to offer.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
Development Size: 170 Acres
Planning Consent Received: 2011
Consented Housing Plots: 1800
Housing Plots Sold and now built: 677
A new Local Centre is being planned next to the primary school to include a shop, doctor’s surgery, nursery /creche and community building. The Poplar Farm scheme will also include ponds, playing fields, wildlife areas and new allotments.
Grantham was named by The Sunday Times (10 February 2013) as one of the most popular commuter towns in Britain for best value for residential property and easy access to London, and rated it 12th out of the top 20 most popular commuter locations on rail lines.
The town offers an excellent selection of shopping facilities from local independent traders to national retailers. There is a wide range of shopping, dining and leisure facilities nearby in the town centre and the Meres leisure centre by the A1. https://www.leisuresk.co.uk/
The area has an excellent selection of schools, including pre-school, nursery, primary and secondary, including Kings Grammar School where Isaac Newton was educated. The range of local schools reach good or outstanding ratings by OFSTED.
For further education, Lincoln University is a short drive or bus ride away. The University also has a campus at Grantham College where it delivers a wide range of courses. (Lincoln University’s satellite centre opened in 2019 in the town centre and is focused on higher and degree level apprenticeships, diplomas and short management courses linked in with Grantham College.)
Poplar Farm is well placed, close to the A1 trunk road, and with Grantham Railway Station within 1.5 miles distance. The East Coast main line from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross provides direct services to London in just over an hour, Newark in 10 mins, Peterborough in 20 mins and Nottingham just 30 mins.