The Rectory Wigston Road Blaby Leicester Leicestershire LE8 4FU
Approved on 25 March 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Willow (T1) - Crown reduction of Willow tree in rear garden from 18m above floor level down to 12m to reduce blocked light into adjacent property Holly (T2) - pruning back the widht of the Holly tree in the front garden Leylandii (T3) - Pruning back the width of the Leylandii in front garden
- Received
- 11 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Blaby District Council
- Ward
- Blaby
- ReceivedReceived11 Feb
- ValidatedValidated13 Feb
- Consult.Consultation7 Mar
- TargetTarget Date27 Mar
- DecidedDecided25 Mar
Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Rectory Wigston Road Blaby Leicester Leicestershire LE8 4FU. Blaby has handled 166 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Blaby's typical decision time. The site is in the Blaby conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Blaby. We hold 1,735 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 4FU
- Application type
- Conservation Area Tree Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Blaby Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 7 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 7 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 7 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 27 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 25 March 2027
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Walters Architects Suite 2.21 St Martins House 7 Peacock Lane Leicester LE1 5PZ
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Tasneem Quareshy
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
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.
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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.
© 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.
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