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Newarke Street/Oxford Street, Student Roost

20252012Certificate of lawful proposed use/developmentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 February 2026

Council decision: Unconditional approvalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawful proposed development for replacement of render and brick to elevations of student accommodation building (Sui Generis)

Received
16 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle
  1. Received16 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided19 Feb

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Newarke Street/Oxford Street, Student Roost. Leicester has handled 112 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days 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 94 applications across Castle.

77% of outline 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
Certificate of lawful proposed use/development
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025
Target decision date
19 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Marsden Street (4th floor) Manchester M2 1HW

Planning decision

Statutory period
64 days

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Market StreetNext to the site
  • Article 4 direction: LL/114 Former Grammar School, 28 Oxford StreetPart of the site · +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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