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Blackbrook Farm, Ashby Road West, Shepshed, Leicestershire, LE12 9TJ

P/23/1256/2Agricultural for Prior ApprovalApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 September 2023

Council decision: DO NOT REQUIRE SUBMISSION OF DETAILSDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior Approval for propose earth banked lagoon with sloping sides and HDPE liner. (Earth banks to be constructed from material from the excavation and all material excavated will be used on site). Mixing points sampling point and 1.8m high steel mesh security fence surrounding the lagoon.

Received
12 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shepshed West
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated11 Aug
  3. Consult.11 Aug
  4. Target6 Sep
  5. Decided7 Sep

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Blackbrook Farm, Ashby Road West, Shepshed, Leicestershire, LE12 9TJ. Charnwood has handled 521 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Charnwood's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Shepshed West. We hold 1,739 applications in total for the LE12 postcode area.

87% of outline applications at Charnwood Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE12 9TJ
Application type
Agricultural for Prior Approval
Development type
Agricultural
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shepshed

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 August 2023
Consultation expiry
11 August 2023
Consultation start
11 August 2023
Consultation end
11 August 2023
Last date for comments
11 August 2023
Target decision date
6 September 2023
Application expires
6 September 2023
Permission expires
7 September 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
26 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 August 2023

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Source: Charnwood

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