7-9 Horsefair Street
Approved on 13 July 2026
Council decision: Conditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
Proposal
Installation of four internally illuminated fascia signs; one externally illuminated projecting sign at front and rear of restaurant (Class E)
- Received
- 14 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Leicester City Council
- Ward
- Castle
- ReceivedReceived14 Nov
- ValidatedValidated11 Dec
- Consult.Consultation12 Jan
- TargetTarget Date17 Mar
- DecidedDecided13 Jul
Decided in 214 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at 7-9 Horsefair Street. Leicester has handled 50 applications of this type. This one was decided in 241 days, 26 weeks longer than Leicester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Castle. We hold 49 applications in total for the LE1 postcode area.
85% of advertising 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
- LE1 5PD
- Application type
- Advertisement consent
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 12 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 12 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 17 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 59 Metropolitan Wy Birmingham B45 9BG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 96 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 9
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Town Hall Square
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, 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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