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Highfields Farm Station Road John O Gaunt LE14 2RE

19/00536/GDOCOUPrior Notification of Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 25 July 2019

Council decision: General Development Order InterventionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of a barn into three dwellings.

Received
8 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Somerby
  1. Received8 May
  2. Validated30 May
  3. Consult.5 Jul
  4. Target25 Jul
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Highfields Farm Station Road John O Gaunt LE14 2RE. Melton has handled 114 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 3 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 amendment 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
Prior Notification of Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Twyford And Thorpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 May 2019
Consultation expiry
26 July 2019
Consultation start
14 June 2019
Consultation end
5 July 2019
Last date for comments
26 July 2019
Target decision date
25 July 2019
Permission expires
25 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
41 Wartnaby Road Ab Kettleby Melton Mowbray LE14 3JJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 July 2019
Site notice end
26 July 2019

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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