Holiday Let Chalet, Granitethorpe Quarry (Disused), Leicester Road, Sapcote, LE9 4JF

Planning appeal 3307992 at Holiday Let Chalet, Granitethorpe Quarry (Disused), Leicester Road, Sapcote, LE9 4JF (Blaby District Council) was dismissed on 5 May 2023 by Inspector Smith A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether or not the site represents an appropriate location for housing with unrestricted occupancy, having particular regard to the requirements of the development plan and the accessibility of facilities and services.

change of use to allow unrestricted residential occupation of existing three-bedroom short term holiday let

Authority: Blaby District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Smith A
Postcode: LE9 4JF

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether or not the site represents an appropriate location for housing with unrestricted occupancy, having particular regard to the requirements of the development plan and the accessibility of facilities and services

What decided it

The site does not represent an appropriate location for housing with unrestricted occupancy due to its position in the Countryside outside the Settlement Boundary, poor accessibility to facilities and services, and reliance on private transport, conflicting with development plan policies promoting sustainable locations for housing.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy CS18Policy CS5Policy FV8Policy FV7Development Management Policy 2

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

22 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Blaby

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

Dismissed1 October 20266009910
12 Victoria Road, Whetstone, LE8 6JX
Dismissed12 August 20266007782
93 Cleveleys Avenue, Braunstone Town, LE3 2GH
Allowed13 July 20266004284
Blaby Golf Range, Lutterworth Road, Blaby, LE84DP
Dismissed6 July 20266006185
Round House, 156 Leicester Road, Countesthorpe, LE8 5QW
Allowed1 June 20263377361
Land on the East Side of Sycamore Street (Caravan Site), Blaby, Leicester, LE8 4FJ

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.