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Oakley Park Ashley Road Middleton Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 8YP

20/00458/COUChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 5 March 2021

Council decision: Application RefusedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed residential caravan site for 6 gypsy/traveller families at land south of Oakley Park.

Received
19 October 2020
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
144
Council
Corby
Ward
Rural West
  1. Received19 Oct
  2. Validated19 Oct
  3. Consult.22 Jan
  4. Target9 Jan
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 137 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Oakley Park Ashley Road Middleton Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 8YP. Corby has handled 91 applications of this type. This one was decided in 137 days, 11 weeks longer than Corby's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,440 applications in total for the LE16 postcode area.

89% of amendment 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 8YP
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Middleton

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 October 2020
Consultation expiry
22 January 2021
Consultation start
4 February 2021
Consultation end
22 January 2021
Neighbour consultation start
4 February 2021
Neighbour consultation end
25 December 2020
Last date for comments
22 January 2021
Target decision date
9 January 2020
Committee meeting
16 February 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
74 Park Road Rugby Warwickshire CV21 2QX

Publicity

Site notice start
2 December 2020
Site notice end
23 December 2020

Appeal

Appeal reference
21/00005/REF
Appeal status
Awaiting decision
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Appeal history

3270912
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 18 April 2023Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
183

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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.

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