Highfields Farm Station Road John O Gaunt LE14 2RE
Approved on 18 September 2015
Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Proposed new porch, ground and first floor alterations small first floor extension on landing area
- Received
- 10 July 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Melton Borough Council
- Ward
- Somerby
- Agent
- michael lavender architects
- ReceivedReceived10 Jul
- ValidatedValidated28 Jul
- Consult.Consultation31 Aug
- TargetTarget Date22 Sep
- DecidedDecided18 Sep
Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a porch at Highfields Farm Station Road John O Gaunt LE14 2RE. Melton has handled 559 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Melton's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Somerby. We hold 1,372 applications in total for the LE14 postcode area.
93% of full applications at Melton Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- LE14 2RE
- Application type
- Householder
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Twyford And Thorpe
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 July 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 10 September 2015
- Consultation start
- 10 August 2015
- Consultation end
- 31 August 2015
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 August 2015
- Neighbour consultation end
- 31 August 2015
- Last date for comments
- 10 September 2015
- Target decision date
- 22 September 2015
- Permission expires
- 18 September 2018
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- michael lavender architects
- Agent address
- Robert Tresham House Naseby Road Clipston Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 9RZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 20 August 2015
- Site notice end
- 10 September 2015
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Melton
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