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298-300 Welford Road

20212374Operational development - full applicationApproved
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Approved on 24 November 2021

Council decision: Conditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of the first floor areas of No. 300 Welford Road, from flat (1 x 1 bed) (Class C3) to offices (Class E)

Received
15 September 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle
  1. Received15 Sep
  2. Validated16 Sep
  3. Consult.23 Nov
  4. Target10 Nov
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 298-300 Welford Road. Leicester has handled 1,027 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Leicester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Castle. We hold 1,245 applications in total for the LE2 postcode area.

84% of full applications at Leicester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE2 6EG
Application type
Operational development - full application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 September 2021
Consultation expiry
23 November 2021
Consultation start
28 October 2021
Consultation end
23 November 2021
Target decision date
10 November 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Eagle House Bilton Way Lutterworth LE17 4HJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 October 2021

Additional information

UPRN
2465204870
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Houses in Multiple Occupation - 2013
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

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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.

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