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3-5 Francis Street

20251591Operational development - full applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 January 2026

Council decision: Conditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of first floor and part of ground floor from shop (Class E) to Hair and Beauty Salon (Sui Generis); installation of a shopfront at ground floor (Amendments received 15/01/2026 and 26/01/2025)

Received
26 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Knighton
  1. Received26 Sep
  2. Validated26 Sep
  3. Consult.15 Dec
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 126 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 3-5 Francis Street. 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 are no previous applications recorded 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 2BE
Application type
Operational development - full application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 September 2025
Consultation expiry
15 December 2025
Consultation start
12 November 2025
Consultation end
15 December 2025
Target decision date
30 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
71-75 Shelton Street London WC2H 9JQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
126 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
18 November 2025
Site notice start
9 December 2025

Additional information

UPRN
2465156606
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: StoneygateNext to the site
  • Article 4 direction: Stoneygate Conservation AreaNext to the site
  • 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

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.

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