We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for Leicester City Council in East Midlands across 40 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.
Refusal of 6 Green View Children's Care Home Application
Planning committee voted to refuse planning application for change of use at 6 Green View from residential dwelling to children's care home for up to 4 children. Committee delegated drafting of detail…
“I am going to move to reject this application based on the concerns that I have heard today... delegated that to officers to draft in consultation wit…”
Refusal of MacDonald Road Mixed-Use Development Application
Planning committee voted to refuse application at 4-10 MacDonald Road seeking to extend grocery store and replace 3-bedroom family dwelling with commercial extension and 1-bed residential flats. Refus…
“That application is refused.”
Change of use to mosque facility with interior modifications
Planning committee approved conversion of former rugby club to mosque with prayer facilities. Proposal includes new female and male prayer areas with separate accesses, ablution areas, shoe storage, o…
“you've got the female prayer area and education area. You've got, separating that between the male prayer area on the right in the green, you've got f…”
Residential development with 14 flats on Raymond Road/Marlborough Road
Planning committee approved residential development demolishing existing factory buildings and retaining one building to provide 14 residential flats across 2-3 storeys. Application was previously def…
“construction of a 3-storey residential building. So the whole of the site will provide a total of 14 residential flats... 4 electric cycle parking spa…”
Cora Works Hybrid Planning Permission - Major Brownfield Regeneration Scheme
Approved hybrid planning application for former Cora textile factory site on Burleys Way. Full application for demolition of buildings (except facade and chimneys), retention of 1865 old textile build…
“The application before us is a hybrid planning application. It comprises a full planning permission for the demolition of all buildings on site, exclu…”
Residential Use Class C2 Definition Clarification
Committee discussion clarified planning classification status. C3 is dwelling house use; C2 is residential institution use including hospitals, nursing homes, boarding schools, training centers, resid…
“C2 use is a residential institution, so you would have hospitals under this use, nursing homes, boarding schools, training centers, residential colleg…”
Planning Permission Approval - 14 Brunel Avenue Care Home
Planning committee approved conversion of residential property to children's care home for up to 3 children (C2 use) with conditions. Approval contingent on applicant continuing community engagement, …
“Okay, so having heard the objections and also the views of members as well as the applicant, and given there isn't anything else within that 400-meter…”
Community Resistance to Care Home Placement
Significant resident opposition to care home proposal with 16 out of 19 dwellings in the cul-de-sac submitting objections. Residents raised concerns about: traffic and parking impacts from 5+ staff ve…
“This will have a very big and long-lasting negative impact on us... Excess traffic flow due to visitors and staff will result in spillover of up to 5 …”
Homelessness Budget Crisis - Bed and Breakfast Overspend
Council facing severe financial pressures in homelessness services. Extra £11 million added to homelessness budget for last 2 years, but still facing overspend of approximately £6-7 million this year.…
“An extra £11 million was added to the homelessness budget for the last 2 years, but we are still facing an overspend of roughly £6 million this year. …”
Yoho Building Purchase for Temporary Accommodation
Executive decision to purchase Yoho building, a 134-unit self-contained accommodation block on York Street, to be reconfigured to 118 units for temporary accommodation. Purchase price £10.9 million (£…
“The unit's relatively new, it's only been built a few years, modern facilities situated on York Street. It's a 134-unit building, all exclusively self…”
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