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Ulverscroft Road former railway bridge

20240888Operational development - full applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 24 September 2024

Council decision: Conditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Infilling of the Ulverscroft Road Bridge

Received
17 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Belgrave
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated18 May
  3. Consult.2 Jul
  4. Target24 Sep
  5. Decided24 Sep

Decided in 129 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Ulverscroft Road former railway bridge. Leicester has handled 1,027 applications of this type. This one was decided in 130 days, 11 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 16 applications across Belgrave.

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

Application type
Operational development - full application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 May 2024
Consultation expiry
2 July 2024
Consultation start
6 June 2024
Consultation end
2 July 2024
Target decision date
24 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Ashley Stratford Number One Building 5 First Street Manchester M15 4GU

Planning decision

Statutory period
129 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 June 2024

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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: Leicester

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