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50 High Street Whetstone Leicestershire LE8 6LP

23/0575/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 5 October 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from storage of an existing shop to a hairdressers

Received
3 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
North Whetstone
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated11 Aug
  3. Consult.5 Oct
  4. Target6 Oct
  5. Decided5 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 50 High Street Whetstone Leicestershire LE8 6LP. Blaby has handled 954 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 weeks longer than Blaby's typical decision time. The site is in the Topsham conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. 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.

95% of full 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 6LP
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whetstone Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 August 2023
Consultation expiry
5 October 2023
Consultation start
27 September 2023
Consultation end
5 October 2023
Neighbour consultation start
14 August 2023
Neighbour consultation end
5 September 2023
Last date for comments
5 October 2023
Target decision date
6 October 2023
Permission expires
5 October 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
PRH Builders 7 Marfitt Street Leicester LE4 6RP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
31 August 2023
Site notice end
21 September 2023

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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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