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165 Howard Road

20220064Certificate of lawful existing use/developmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 20 April 2022

Council decision: Unconditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawful existing use as house in multiple occupation (Class C4)

Received
17 January 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle
  1. Received17 Jan
  2. Validated22 Feb
  3. Consult.23 Mar
  4. Target18 Apr
  5. Decided20 Apr

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 165 Howard Road. Leicester has handled 158 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than Leicester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

71% of amendment 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 1XQ
Application type
Certificate of lawful existing use/development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 February 2022
Consultation expiry
23 March 2022
Consultation end
23 March 2022
Target decision date
18 April 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Roserie Cottage Westhorpe Sibbertoft LE16 9UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

UPRN
2465072099
Documents
14

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
  • Brownfield land register: 188 Welford RoadRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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.

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