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Whetstone Baptist Church King Street Whetstone Leicestershire LE8 6LS

23/0399/TPOProtected Trees ApplicaitonApproved

Approved on 27 September 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Works to 1, Poplar, 1 Ash and 2 Cherry trees. Crown lift to 2.5m from the ground, removal of low lateral branches overhanging footway. Prune back Poplar branches to previous pollard points.

Received
11 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
North Whetstone
  1. Received11 May
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.3 Jul
  4. Target4 Aug
  5. Decided27 Sep

Decided in 110 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Whetstone Baptist Church King Street Whetstone Leicestershire LE8 6LS. Blaby has handled 166 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Blaby's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across North Whetstone. We hold 1,732 applications in total for the LE8 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Blaby District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE8 6LS
Application type
Protected Trees Applicaiton
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whetstone Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2023
Consultation expiry
3 July 2023
Consultation start
12 June 2023
Consultation end
3 July 2023
Last date for comments
3 July 2023
Target decision date
4 August 2023
Permission expires
27 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
SKM Design Unit D, Edward House Grange Business Park Enderby Road Leicester LE8 6EP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12100955
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Brownfield land register: Land Between Numbers 11 And 15 King Street Whetstone LE8 6LSRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Blaby

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