Land At Croft Lodge Farm Broughton Road Leicester Croft LE9 3EB

24/0559/OUTOutline ApplicationApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee32 conditions

Proposal

Outline planning application for the erection of up to 95 dwellings (Use Class C3) and associated infrastructure, public open space and landscaping with all matters reserved except access (to entail works to existing site access and the creation of an additional access to serve the car boot sale operations on land to the south).

Received: 1 July 2024
Decision level: Planning committee
Public comments: 30
Council: Blaby District Council
Ward: Fosse Stoney Cove

ReceivedReceived1 Jul
ValidatedValidated22 Jul
Consult.Consultation6 Jan
TargetTarget Date21 Oct
DecidedDecided19 Dec

Decided in 515 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Croft Lodge Farm Broughton Road Leicester Croft LE9 3EB. Blaby has handled 160 applications of this type. This one was decided in 536 days, 69 weeks longer than Blaby's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Fosse Stoney Cove. We hold 1,697 applications in total for the LE9 postcode area.

94% of outline 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: LE9 3EB
Application type: Outline Application
Scale / size: Large
Number of dwellings: 95
Parish: Croft Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 July 2024
Consultation expiry: 6 January 2025
Consultation start: 11 December 2024
Consultation end: 6 January 2025
Neighbour consultation start: 29 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end: 19 August 2024
Last date for comments: 6 January 2025
Target decision date: 21 October 2024
Committee meeting: 5 June 2025
Permission expires: 19 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant
Agent address: Savills (UK) Limited 55 Colmore Row Birmingham B3 2AA

Planning decision

Case officer: Stephen Dukes
Statutory period: 91 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 2 August 2024
Advertisement expiry: 23 August 2024
Site notice start: 29 July 2024
Site notice end: 19 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13035468
Documents: 106

Site constraints

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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.

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© 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.

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