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Heath Lodge Farm Bagworth Road Newbold Heath Newbold Verdon Leicester Leicestershire LE9 9NB

26/00392/CLECertificate of Lawful Use - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 23 June 2026

Council decision: Refusal of Cert of Lawful Existing UseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of existing lawful development for the use of the highlighted land as garden land within the residential curtilage of Heath Lodge Farm Farmhouse

Received
28 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Barlestone Nailstone And Osbaston
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.28 May
  4. Target23 Jun
  5. Decided23 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Heath Lodge Farm Bagworth Road Newbold Heath Newbold Verdon Leicester Leicestershire LE9 9NB. Hinckley and Bosworth has handled 130 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Hinckley and Bosworth's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Barlestone Nailstone And Osbaston. We hold 1,704 applications in total for the LE9 postcode area.

84% of amendment applications at Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. There is insufficient clear, precise and unambiguous evidence submitted by the applicant to demonstrate that on the balance of probabilities the land within the red line shown on the Site Location Plan received by the Local Planning Authority on 28 April 2026 has been used continuously as residential garden land for a period of ten years up to the date of this application.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
LE9 9NB
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barlestone Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2026
Consultation expiry
28 May 2026
Neighbour consultation end
28 May 2026
Last date for comments
28 May 2026
Target decision date
23 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Brown & Co
Agent address
5 Geoff Monk Way Birstall Leicester Leicestershire LE4 3BU

Planning decision

Case officer
Ashleigh Gade
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14768587
Documents
5
Constraints
3

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: Hinckley and Bosworth

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