Article 4 Direction: New Walk Conservation Area

Holy Trinity Housing Action Area

LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (GENERAL DEVELOPMENT) ORDERS 1977 AND 1981

ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION

WHEREAS The Leicester City Council being the appropriate local planning authority within the meaning of Article 4 of the Town and Country Planning (General Development) Orders 1977 and 1981 are of the opinion that development of the descriptions set out in the Schedule hereto should not be carried out on land in the Holy Trinity Housing Action Area, Leicester, being the land shown edged and stippled on the plan annexed hereto unless permission therefore is granted on application made under the Town and Country Planning (General Development) Orders 1977 and 1991.

AND WHEREAS the Council are further of the opinion that development of the said descriptions would be prejudicial to the proper planning of their area and would constitute a threat to the amenities of their area and that paragraph 3(b) of the said Article 4 should apply to this Direction.

NOW THEREFORE the said Council in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by the said Article 4 hereby direct that the permission granted by Article 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Development) Orders 1977 and 1981 shall not apply to development on the said land of the descriptions set out in the Schedule hereto.

THIS DIRECTION is made in pursuance of the provisions of paragraph 3(b) of the said Article 4 and shall remain in force until the 2nd day of May 1981 (being six months from the date of this Direction) and will then expire unless it has been approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment before that date.

SCHEDULE

Class I - Development within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse

1. The enlargement improvement or other alteration of a dwellinghouse so long as:

(a) the cubic content of the original dwellinghouse (as ascertained by external measurement) is not exceeded by more than 50 cubic metres or one-tenth whichever is the greater, subject to a maximum of 115 cubic metres;

(b) the height of the building as so enlarged altered or improved does not exceed the height of the highest part of the roof of the original dwellinghouse;

(c) no part of the building as so enlarged altered or improved projects beyond the forwardmost part of any wall of the original dwellinghouse which fronts on a highway:

Provided that the erection of a garage, stable, loose-box or coach-house within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse shall be treated as the enlargement of the dwellinghouse for all purposes of this permission including the calculation of cubic contents.

2. The erection or construction of a porch outside any external door of a dwellinghouse so long as:

(a) the floor area does not exceed 2 square metres;

(b) no part of the structure is more than 3 metres above the level of the ground;

(c) no part of the structure is less than 2 metres from any boundary of the curtilage which fronts on a highway.

4. The construction within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse of a hardstanding for vehicles for a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse as such.

Class II - Sundry minor operations

3. The painting of the exterior of any building or work otherwise than for the purpose of advertisement, announcement or direction.

being developments comprised within Class I (1), (2), (4) and Class II (3) of Schedule I to the said Orders and not being development comprised within any other classes.

THE COMMON SEAL of THE
LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL
was hereunto affixed on the
2nd day of December, 1980.
(Signed)
City Attorney.

The Holy Trinity Article 4 Direction was approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment on 31st March 1981.