The Old Telephone Exchange 2 Gretton Road Rockingham Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 8GE
Approved on 20 May 2009
Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee
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Proposal
First floor extension and entrance porch and alterations to cross over
- Received
- 19 March 2009
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Corby
- Ward
- Rural West
- ReceivedReceived19 Mar
- ValidatedValidated19 Mar
- Consult.Consultation13 Apr
- TargetTarget Date20 Mar
- DecidedDecided20 May
Decided in 62 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a porch at The Old Telephone Exchange 2 Gretton Road Rockingham Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 8GE. Corby has handled 539 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days. The site is in the Rockingham conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 3,445 applications in total for the LE16 postcode area.
94% of full applications at Corby were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- LE16 8GE
- Application type
- Detailed Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Rockingham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 March 2009
- Consultation expiry
- 23 April 2009
- Consultation start
- 23 March 2009
- Consultation end
- 13 April 2009
- Neighbour consultation start
- 23 March 2009
- Last date for comments
- 23 April 2009
- Target decision date
- 20 March 2009
- Committee meeting
- 19 May 2009
- Permission expires
- 20 May 2012
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 45 Patrick Road Corby Northants NN18 9NB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 1 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 2 April 2009
- Advertisement expiry
- 23 April 2009
- Site notice start
- 26 March 2009
- Site notice end
- 16 April 2009
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Rockingham
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20244 Nov
Oak tree - Crown lift 4-5 metres, crown reduction up to 1.5 metres and crown thinning of 15%
ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreaNC/24/00352/CAT - 20194 Jun
Prune back 1 Aspen tree
ApprovedTrees in Conservation Area19/00277/CAT - 20127 Jun
two storey front extension and first floor extension
ApprovedDetailed Planning Permission12/00190/DPA
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