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16 Town Square, Syston, Leicestershire, LE7 1GZ

P/25/1997/2Prior Approval - CoU - Offices (B1a) to Dwelling (C3)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL REFUSED

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of first floor (Class E) to 4no. one-bed apartments (Class C3)

Received
29 September 2025
Ward
Syston
  1. Received29 Sep
  2. Validated7 Oct
  3. Consult.4 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 16 Town Square, Syston, Leicestershire, LE7 1GZ. Charnwood has handled 521 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 29 September 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Syston conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Syston. We hold 2,742 applications in total for the LE7 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
LE7 1GZ
Application type
Prior Approval - CoU - Offices (B1a) to Dwelling (C3)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Syston

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 October 2025
Consultation expiry
4 November 2025
Consultation start
7 October 2025
Consultation end
4 November 2025

Planning decision

Decision
PRIOR APPROVAL REFUSED

Publicity

Site notice start
7 October 2025

Appeal

Appeal date
8 January 2026

Appeal history

6002685
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 27 March 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Syston
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1300, Melton RoadOn this site · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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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