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40 Chapel Lane

20230599Operational development - full applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 9 August 2023

Council decision: Conditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of single storey extension at side and rear of house (Class C3) (Amendments received on 02/08/2023)

Received
5 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Knighton
  1. Received5 Apr
  2. Validated17 May
  3. Consult.27 Jun
  4. Target9 Aug
  5. Decided9 Aug

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at 40 Chapel Lane. Leicester has handled 1,027 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 10 weeks longer than Leicester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 86 applications across Knighton. 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 3WE
Application type
Operational development - full application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 May 2023
Consultation expiry
27 June 2023
Consultation start
18 May 2023
Consultation end
27 June 2023
Target decision date
9 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Vicarage 1 Wood Hill Leicester LE5 3JB

Planning decision

Statutory period
84 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
20 June 2023
Site notice start
18 May 2023

Additional information

UPRN
2465070191
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Knighton Village
  • Article 4 direction: Knighton Village Conservation Area+1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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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