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6 Pulteney Avenue, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2NA

P/26/1368/2FullRefused

Refused on 19 October 2026

Council decision: Refuse2 reasons for refusal

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Retrospective Planning Application for the conversion of outbuilding to an annexe to provide additional accommodation for the first floor flat and retention of use as habitable space.

Received
23 July 2026
Ward
Loughborough Outwoods and Shelthorpe
  1. Received23 Jul
  2. Validated24 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 6 Pulteney Avenue, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2NA. Charnwood has handled 3,367 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Charnwood's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Loughborough Outwoods and Shelthorpe. We hold 3,347 applications in total for the LE11 postcode area.

85% of full applications at Charnwood Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The use of the detached outbuilding as ancillary residential accommodation associated with the first-floor flat has resulted in an unsatisfactory relationship between the annex, the two flats and the shared rear garden area. The proposal results in the first-floor flat and annex becoming the dominant users of the communal amenity space, diminishing its effectiveness as shared amenity space and eroding the private amenity value enjoyed by occupiers of the ground-floor flat. The proposal would therefore fail to provide attractive, safe and well managed public and private amenity spaces and would fail to achieve the compatible and harmonious relationship between neighbouring buildings and land uses sought by Appendix 4 (Page 292) of the Charnwood Local Plan. Furthermore, the increased activity associated with the annex would the loss of privacy, noise and disturbance affecting existing and future occupiers of the ground floor flat and neighbouring residents. The proposal would therefore fail to protect the amenity of people who live nearby and those who will live in the development, contrary to Policy DS4 of the Charnwood Local Plan and Policy P3 of the National Planning Policy Framework.
  2. The use of the detached outbuilding as ancillary accommodation associated with one of the two flats would intensify the use and occupation of the site and result the proposed use would add further to the scale of the usage of the property as a whole, with adverse effects on the levels of disturbance experienced by occupiers of nearby dwellings. The proposal would therefore fail to respect and enhance the character of the area, fail to provide attractive and functional places where people will want to live, and fail to satisfactorily respond to the site's layout and access arrangements, contrary to Policy DS4 of the Charnwood Local Plan. The proposal would also fail to respond positively to its context and would fail to integrate appropriately with the existing built environment, contrary to Policy DP3 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
LE11 2NA
Application type
Full
Parish
Loughborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Paul Oxbrough

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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