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North West Leicestershire

North West Leicestershire approved 95.5% of the applications it decided, 8.5% above the England average.

Approved

95.5%

England 87%

Decided on time

86%

Inside the statutory period

Applications a year

594

Decided in the reporting year

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Against the country

More permissive than the average.

The England benchmark is 87%. It is the share of decided applications that were approved, so a withdrawal counts as neither. Source: MHCLG Live Table P120A (England, rolling 12-month).

What we hold, and what we do not

North West Leicestershire

95.5%

England

87%

Standard-method local housing need: 357 dwellings a year.

The rules here

What this authority decides against.

An application is judged against the adopted development plan unless material considerations say otherwise. This is that plan, and the levy that comes with it.

Local planNorth West Leicestershire Local Plan (2021)

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Wren reads the plan, the policies and the charging schedule on this page and answers from those. Every answer links the source it drew on, so you can check it against the council’s own document.

What Wren does here

4.5% of applications here are refused.

North West Leicestershire decided 594 applications in the reporting year, and refused about 4.5% of them. A refusal is usually a document problem rather than a scheme problem: the policy that governs it was not addressed, or the evidence it asks for was not there.

Wren drafts against North West Leicestershire Local Plan (2021), a chartered planner reads the draft and signs it under their own indemnity, and a case manager files it and chases it. A householder application is £499, and North West Leicestershire's own statutory fee is separate and paid by you directly to them.

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