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Smeeton House 3 Main Street Smeeton Westerby Leicestershire LE8 0QJ

22/02093/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 25 August 2023

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Part demolition, erection of an outbuilding, a single storey side/rear extension, north boundary wall, bin store, part east boundary wall and metal railings, and a greenhouse, increase ridge height of rear range including rebuilding of southern elevation wall, installation of EV charging points, alterations to access and east boundary wall, internal and external alterations to main house and coach house

Received
7 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kibworths
Agent
Leaf Architecture & Design Ltd
  1. Received7 Dec
  2. Validated14 Dec
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target8 Feb
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 254 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Smeeton House 3 Main Street Smeeton Westerby Leicestershire LE8 0QJ. Harborough has handled 538 applications of this type. This one was decided in 261 days, 29 weeks longer than Harborough's typical decision time. The site is in the Smeeton Westerby conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Kibworths. We hold 1,732 applications in total for the LE8 postcode area.

96% of heritage applications at Harborough District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE8 0QJ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Smeeton Westerby

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 December 2022
Consultation expiry
16 March 2023
Consultation end
16 March 2023
Neighbour consultation end
6 January 2023
Target decision date
8 February 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Leaf Architecture & Design Ltd
Architect profile
LEAF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN LIMITED
Agent address
Mr Richard Norwood Gate House Office 1 Valley Way Welland Business Park Market Harborough LE16 7PS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
12 January 2023
Site notice end
30 January 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11746510
Documents
32

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Smeeton Westerby
  • Listed building: Grade II: Smeeton HouseOn this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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

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© 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: Harborough

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