The Old Telephone Exchange 2 Gretton Road Rockingham Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 8GE
Approved on 25 July 2012
Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee
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Proposal
two storey front extension and first floor extension
- Received
- 7 June 2012
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Corby
- Ward
- Rural West
- ReceivedReceived7 Jun
- ValidatedValidated7 Jun
- Consult.Consultation2 Jul
- TargetTarget Date8 Jun
- DecidedDecided25 Jul
Decided in 48 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a front extension 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 48 days, 2 weeks quicker than Corby's typical decision time. 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
- 7 June 2012
- Consultation expiry
- 12 July 2012
- Consultation start
- 11 June 2012
- Consultation end
- 2 July 2012
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 June 2012
- Neighbour consultation end
- 2 July 2012
- Last date for comments
- 12 July 2012
- Target decision date
- 8 June 2012
- Committee meeting
- 24 July 2012
- Permission expires
- 25 July 2015
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 1 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 21 June 2012
- Advertisement expiry
- 12 July 2012
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 - 200919 Mar
First floor extension and entrance porch and alterations to cross over
ApprovedDetailed Planning Permission09/00109/DPA
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