51 Holmfield Avenue East Braunstone Town Leicester Leicestershire LE3 3FD

26/0626/FULApproved

Approved on 22 September 2026

Council decision: Application Permitted6 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)

Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use from C3 (residential dwellinghouse) to C2 (residential children's care home) to accommodate 3 people under the age of 18.

Received: 24 July 2026
Public comments: 0 · last counted 1 November 2026
Council: Blaby District Council
Ward: Thorpe Astley & St Marys

ReceivedReceived24 Jul
ValidatedValidated28 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided22 Sep

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 51 Holmfield Avenue East Braunstone Town Leicester Leicestershire LE3 3FD. Blaby has handled 2,077 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Thorpe Astley & St Marys. We hold 327 applications in total for the LE3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: LE3 3FD
Parish: Braunstone Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant
Architect profile: CARATELLA + PARTNERS LTD

Planning decision

Case officer: Feargal McEvoy

Additional information

Documents: 14

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

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.

Source: Blaby

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