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Car Park Chapel Street Melton Mowbray

26/00037/CLCertificate of Lawful UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 March 2026

Council decision: Certificate of lawful-ProposedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

The proposal is to erect an Electric Vehicle Charging Hub and Solar Canopy within 10 spaces of the existing car park.

Received
19 January 2026
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
1
Ward
Melton Craven
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated19 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Mar
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Car Park Chapel Street Melton Mowbray. Melton has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Melton's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across Melton Craven.

90% of outline 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

Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melton Craven Ward

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 January 2026
Neighbour consultation start
26 February 2026
Target decision date
16 March 2026
Committee meeting
12 March 2026
Permission expires
19 March 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14629770
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: The United Reformed ChurchOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Former BMC Campus, Kings Street, Melton MowbrayRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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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