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Hillcrest Home For Older People Kenilworth Drive Ilkeston Derbyshire DE7 4FJ

0819/0026Full Planning (New dwellings)Approved
Full

Approved on 21 November 2019

Council decision: Approved with Conds(Committee)Planning committee

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

Proposal

Change of use of former care home (Use Class C2) to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) (sui generis) to provide 44no. individual HMO rooms (bedsits) alongside external alterations to the existing building, i.e. new openings; associated landscaping works, including the provision of a new hardstanding parking area; and the reinstatement of the crossover to create an entrance/access from Hemlock Lane to serve the proposed car park.

Submitted
5 August 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Kirk Hallam and Stanton-by-Dale Ward
  1. Received5 Aug
  2. Validated5 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Nov

Decided in 108 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Hillcrest Home For Older People Kenilworth Drive Ilkeston Derbyshire DE7 4FJ. Erewash has handled 1,933 applications of this type. This one was decided in 108 days, 8 weeks longer than Erewash's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Kirk Hallam and Stanton-by-Dale Ward. We hold 2,342 applications in total for the DE7 postcode area.

92% of full applications at Erewash Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DE7 4FJ
Application type
Full Planning (New dwellings)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ilkeston

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 August 2019

Additional information

Documents
29

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 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2016
    10 Nov

    PRIOR NOTIFICATION OF PROPOSED DEMOLITION.

    ApprovedDemolition (Part 11)1116/0012

Source: Erewash

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