Countesthorpe Academy Winchester Road Countesthorpe Leicester Leicestershire LE8 5PR
Approved on 15 August 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
3G synthetic pitch with 14.5m high sports lighting, perimeter fencing, storage container, access path and associated landscaping.
- Received
- 2 August 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 10
- Council
- Blaby District Council
- Ward
- Countesthorpe
- ReceivedReceived2 Aug
- ValidatedValidated20 Aug
- Consult.Consultation3 Mar
- TargetTarget Date15 Oct
- DecidedDecided15 Aug
Decided in 360 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Countesthorpe Academy Winchester Road Countesthorpe Leicester Leicestershire LE8 5PR. Blaby has handled 954 applications of this type. This one was decided in 378 days, 46 weeks longer than Blaby's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Countesthorpe. 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 5PR
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Countesthorpe Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 August 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 28 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 10 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 August 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 11 September 2024
- Last date for comments
- 28 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 15 October 2024
- Permission expires
- 15 August 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- MUGA UK Ltd Mill Farm Hathern Road Shepshed LE12 9RP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 7 March 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 28 March 2025
- Site notice start
- 4 March 2025
- Site notice end
- 25 March 2025
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13298689
- Documents
- 59
Site constraints
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.
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