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Foxlands Farm Croft Road Cosby Leicester Leicestershire LE9 1SG

25/0448/FULFull ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 26 September 2025

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective Planning Application to change the use of Buildings H, G1 5, Building I and Building J from agricultural use to class B8 storage use

Received
16 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Cosby & South Whetstone
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated23 May
  3. Consult.25 Jun
  4. Target22 Aug
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 126 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Foxlands Farm Croft Road Cosby Leicester Leicestershire LE9 1SG. Blaby has handled 954 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 11 weeks longer than Blaby's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Cosby & South Whetstone. We hold 1,693 applications in total for the LE9 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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Why it was refused

  1. The application site lies within the Countryside, where Policies CS6 and CS18 of the Blaby District Local Plan (Core Strategy) Development Plan Document (2013) and Policy DM3 of the Blaby District Local Plan (Delivery) Development Plan Document (2019) permit only limited, small-scale employment development, subject to there being no suitable and available sites within settlement boundaries. The applicant has failed to demonstrate that there are no suitable or available alternative sites within the settlement boundary. In addition, the proposed change of use, when considered cumulatively with the existing activities on the site, would exceed what could reasonably be regarded as "small-scale" employment development and would

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
LE9 1SG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Cosby Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 May 2025
Consultation expiry
1 July 2025
Consultation start
3 June 2025
Consultation end
25 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
3 June 2025
Neighbour consultation end
24 June 2025
Last date for comments
1 July 2025
Target decision date
22 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Marrons Planning One Colton Square Leicester LE1 1QH

Planning decision

Case officer
Clementyne Murphy-Nelson
Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 June 2025
Advertisement expiry
27 June 2025
Site notice start
10 June 2025
Site notice end
1 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13982016
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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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Source: Blaby

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