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6 Flora Street

20231312Operational development - full applicationRefused
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Refused on 23 October 2023

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective change of use from residential care home (3 bed) (Class C2 ) to HMO (5 bed) (Class C4); Installation of door to side and internal alterations

Received
12 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Fosse
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated7 Sep
  3. Consult.9 Oct
  4. Target1 Nov
  5. Decided23 Oct

Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 6 Flora Street. Leicester has handled 1,027 applications of this type. This one was decided in 103 days, 7 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 33 applications across Fosse. We hold 323 applications in total for the LE3 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
LE3 5RN
Application type
Operational development - full application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 September 2023
Consultation expiry
9 October 2023
Consultation start
12 September 2023
Consultation end
9 October 2023
Target decision date
1 November 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
74a Wyvern Avenue Leicester LE4 7HH

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 September 2023

Appeal

Appeal result
Dismissed
Appeal decision date
1 August 2024

Appeal history

3340512
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 1 August 2024Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

UPRN
2465039344
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: St Paul'sNext to the site
  • Article 4 direction: Leicester City Council HMO Article 4 Direction 2021+2 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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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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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