89 Gwendoline Drive Countesthorpe Leicester Leicestershire LE8 5SJ
Approved on 10 July 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval is Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
The erection of a single storey rear extension which would extend beyond the rear wall of the original dwellinghouse by 3.9 metres, for which the maximum height would be 3.9 metres and for which the height to eaves would be 2.4 metres
- Received
- 23 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Blaby District Council
- Ward
- Countesthorpe
- ReceivedReceived23 May
- ValidatedValidated30 May
- Consult.Consultation3 Jul
- TargetTarget Date11 Jul
- DecidedDecided10 Jul
Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 89 Gwendoline Drive Countesthorpe Leicester Leicestershire LE8 5SJ. Blaby has handled 160 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker 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.
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
- LE8 5SJ
- Application type
- Householder Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Countesthorpe Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 3 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 11 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 10 July 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Chartered Architects 130 Moat Street Wigston Leicestershire LE18 2GE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
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.
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