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4 Northfield Road Blaby Leicester Leicestershire LE8 4GU

24/0294/TCConservation Area Tree ApplicationApproved

Approved on 9 May 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 Sycamore (next to greenhouse) Removal of lowest limb on right hand stem growing over garden and conifers and removal of 1st fork of left-hand stem growing vertically. T2 Sycamore (next to slab) Removal of six lowest limbs overhanging garden. Left hand stem closest to house; remove six lowest limbs overhanging garden.

Received
4 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Blaby
  1. Received4 Apr
  2. Validated11 Apr
  3. Consult.3 May
  4. Target23 May
  5. Decided9 May

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 4 Northfield Road Blaby Leicester Leicestershire LE8 4GU. Blaby has handled 166 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Blaby's typical decision time. The site is in the Blaby conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Blaby. 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 4GU
Application type
Conservation Area Tree Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blaby Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 April 2024
Consultation expiry
3 May 2024
Consultation start
12 April 2024
Consultation end
3 May 2024
Last date for comments
3 May 2024
Target decision date
23 May 2024
Permission expires
9 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12951309
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Blaby
  • 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, 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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