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Whitmores Timber Co Ltd Main Road Claybrooke Magna Leicestershire LE17 5AQ

26/00917/PDNOutlineApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 August 2026

Council decision: Approve

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed Installation, Alteration or Replacement of other Solar Photovoltaics (PV) equipment on the Roofs of Non-domestic Buildings - The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 14, Class J - Roof mounted solar PV on non-domestic buildings

Received
24 June 2026
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated24 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Whitmores Timber Co Ltd Main Road Claybrooke Magna Leicestershire LE17 5AQ. Harborough has handled 676 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Harborough's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Ullesthorpe. We hold 1,697 applications in total for the LE17 postcode area.

85% of outline 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
LE17 5AQ
Application type
Outline
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 June 2026
Consultation expiry
29 July 2026

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.

Source: Harborough

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