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Watermill Apartments The Watermill Station Road South Luffenham Rutland LE15 8NG

2026/0060/LBAListed Building ApplicationApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 16 March 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)1 condition

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Retrospective change of use of guest suites 1 and 2 from holiday lets to C3 Residential Use.

Received
19 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Normanton Ward
Agent
Paul Bancroft Architects
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.18 Feb
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Watermill Apartments The Watermill Station Road South Luffenham Rutland LE15 8NG. Rutland has handled 287 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Rutland's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Normanton Ward. We hold 3,197 applications in total for the LE15 postcode area.

86% of heritage applications at Rutland County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE15 8NG
Application type
Listed Building Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Luffenham Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2026
Consultation expiry
27 February 2026
Consultation start
28 January 2026
Consultation end
18 February 2026
Last date for comments
28 February 2026
Target decision date
19 March 2026
Permission expires
16 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Paul Bancroft Architects
Agent address
The Old Bakehouse 5 Market Place Oundle PE8 4BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 February 2026
Advertisement expiry
26 February 2026
Site notice start
6 February 2026
Site notice end
27 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14628919
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    22 Jan

    Retrospective change of use of guest suites 1 and 2 from holiday lets to C3 Residential Use.

    ApprovedApplicationFiled alongside2026/0059/FUL
  2. 2026
    19 Jan

    Retrospective change of use of guest suites 1 and 2 from holiday lets to C3 Residential Use.

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent2026/0060/LBA

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