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Gwendolen Road, Leicester General Hospital, Diabetes Care Unit

20251709Non-Material Change to Planning PermissionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 November 2025

Council decision: Conditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Non-material amendment to planning permission 20241212 (Construction of 3 storey extension to hospital building (Class C2); minor demolition and refurbishment works; landscaping; drainage and diversion of existing below ground services (amended plans received 05/11/2024) ) to amend details of ramp, therapy garden, extend paving area at top of stairs, construction of tarmac path, alterations to materials

Received
24 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Evington
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated25 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 Nov
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Gwendolen Road, Leicester General Hospital, Diabetes Care Unit. Leicester has handled 158 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker 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 41 applications across Evington.

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

Application type
Non-Material Change to Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 October 2025
Target decision date
21 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Waterfront House 2a Smith Way Grove Park Enderby Leicester LE19 1SX

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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 1: Low 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.

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