Land Adjacent To 49 Church Lane Ravenstone Leicestershire Data via plota.co.uk

26/00349/PIP - Permission In Principle Approved

Proposal

Permission in Principle for the erection of two self-build dwellings Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
13 Mar 2026
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Validated
16 Mar 2026
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Consultation
22 Apr 2026
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Committee
6 May 2026
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Approved
7 May 2026

Approved on 7 May 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Planning committee

Decided by North West Leicestershire Planning Committee on 6 May 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the self-build homes would help address a significant shortfall and their harms would not outweigh their benefits.
  • Eight objections raised concerns about countryside development, appearance, highways, residential amenity, biodiversity, grazing land and flooding.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of North West Leicestershire's committee minutes of 6 May 2026.

Site constraints 2

Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Public byway open to all traffic about 24 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Application type
Permission In Principle
Postcode
LE67 2AX
Received
13 Mar 2026
Validated
16 Mar 2026
Ward
Ravenstone And Packington
Parish
Ravenstone With Snibston
Case officer
Show
Target decision
20 Apr 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
7 May 2026
Decision level
Committee Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Andrew Large Surveyors

How this decision compares

Decided in 52 days from validation, 22 days faster than North West Leicestershire's median of 74 for new homes. Approved, as 74% of new homes here are.

33%decided within 8 weeks
74%approved
46decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by North West Leicestershire in the last twelve months, from validation. North West Leicestershire decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Neighbours
28 Apr 2026
Consultation
22 Apr 2026
Comments by
14 May 2026
Site or press notice
19 Mar 2026
Committee
6 May 2026
Env. assessment
No
North West Leicestershire
Planning Authority Score
4.6/10
Below average
#170 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North West Leicestershire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #211 out of 296. 51% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
97% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North West Leicestershire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
95%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #23 of 296
97%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #38 of 296
55%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #211 of 296
51%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #231 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
82 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
97%
Change of use approved
38 decided
555
Total decisions
25 refused in the year to March 2026