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36 Sweet Leys Way, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8LE

DMPA/2025/0663Householder planning permissionApproved
Householder

Approved on 27 August 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

The conversion of the garage into living accommodation (retrospective) at

Received
21 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received21 May
  2. Validated2 Jun
  3. Consult.22 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Aug

Decided in 86 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 36 Sweet Leys Way, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8LE. South Derbyshire has handled 1,042 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 5 weeks longer than South Derbyshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 861 applications in total for the DE73 postcode area.

95% of full applications at South Derbyshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DE73 8LE
Application type
Householder planning permission
Development type
Other
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 June 2025
Consultation expiry
22 August 2025
Consultation start
10 June 2025
Consultation end
22 August 2025
Application expires
27 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
86 days

Additional information

Documents
12

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.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: South Derbyshire

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