Planning application drawings in Wigston All Saints

What the data says about planning in Wigston All Saints

Oadby and Wigston Borough Council granted 77% of the householder planning decisions it made in its latest published year — 10 points below the 87% England-wide householder average. Wigston All Saints contains All Saints, Grand Union Canal, The Lanes conservation areas (All Saints designated 1977), so materials, fenestration and roof form are assessed against the appraisal, which is where a policy-literate drawing pack earns its keep. Its dominant postwar (1945–1970) housing stock sets the design brief on most streets.

Class A and Class B set the thresholds — a rear dormer to 40m³ on a terrace or 50m³ on a semi or detached, and a single-storey rear extension to 3m on a terrace or 4m on a detached house — beyond which Oadby and Wigston Borough Council needs a full application. In conservation areas such as All Saints, Grand Union Canal and The Lanes those rights are removed, so we confirm your exact address before a line is drawn. A validated householder application in Wigston All Saints is determined against an 8-week statutory target.

All Saints (conservation area designated in 1977), Grand Union Canal (designated conservation area) and The Lanes (conservation area designated in 1981) — these are the Wigston All Saints pockets our drawings cover most. Heritage designations here include All Saints, Grand Union Canal and The Lanes. Oadby and Wigston Borough Council weighs each proposal against Oadby and Wigston Borough Council's adopted local plan and its householder design guidance, where the 2,770 homes here are 49% 1965-1972, 17% 1955-1964, 8% 1973-1982, which is what sets the realistic roof and rear-projection options. On roofs the borough is shallow-pitched roofs and integral garages typical of that period's building and shallow gabled roofs typical of that period's building, over late-1960s and early-1970s houses (49% of 2,770 homes), late-1950s and early-1960s houses (17%) and 1970s and early-1980s houses (8%).

Designations, stock and decisions in Wigston All Saints

Heritage designation is the single biggest variable in Wigston All Saints, and it is address-specific: All Saints (conservation area designated in 1977), Grand Union Canal (designated conservation area) and The Lanes (conservation area designated in 1981). Inside those boundaries permitted development is curtailed and Oadby and Wigston Borough Council assesses materials, window detail and roof form against the area's own appraisal, so a scheme that would be waved through two streets away can need a full application here.

No Article 4 direction is recorded for Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, but Wigston All Saints's 3 conservation areas still limit permitted development on those streets.

On stock, Wigston All Saints is late-1960s and early-1970s houses (49% of 2,770 homes), late-1950s and early-1960s houses (17%) and 1970s and early-1980s houses (8%) — which is why shallow-pitched roofs and integral garages typical of that period's building and shallow gabled roofs typical of that period's building govern what a loft or rear projection can realistically be. Oadby and Wigston Borough Council decided 190 householder applications in the latest published year and granted 77%, with 72% issued inside the eight-week target. We work from the council's own published record.

The full build-period split for Wigston All Saints runs pre-1900 5% (140 homes), 1900-1918 3% (90 homes), 1919-1929 2% (60 homes), 1930-1939 3% (90 homes), 1945-1954 1% (30 homes), 1955-1964 17% (480 homes), 1965-1972 49% (1,370 homes), 1973-1982 8% (230 homes), 1983-1992 4% (100 homes), 1993-1999 0% (10 homes) and 2000-2008 2% (50 homes). That distribution is why pre-1900 detailing dominates the drawings here, and it is measured from council-tax records rather than assumed from the street name.

Oadby and Wigston Borough Council also decides for Oadby Grange and Oadby St Peter's, so a decision in Wigston All Saints sits inside a wider pattern of decisions we track across the same authority — useful when an officer cites a precedent from the next area over.

What goes in a Wigston All Saints planning application

Whatever you are building, Oadby and Wigston Borough Council decides it from the same core set. A location plan at 1:1250 fixes the site on the map with the red-line boundary; a block plan at 1:500 shows the property in its plot; then existing and proposed floor plans and elevations at 1:100 or 1:50 show the house as it is and as it will be. Larger schemes add a section and, where policy requires, a design and access statement. Miss one and the application is returned invalid before an officer has looked at it.

The drawings are also the argument. Oadby and Wigston Borough Council assesses each proposal against Oadby and Wigston Borough Council's adopted local plan and its householder design guidance, and the elevations are where the case is won or lost — ridge and eaves heights, window positions, materials and how the change reads from the street. On Wigston All Saints's stock, which runs to late-1960s and early-1970s houses (49% of 2,770 homes), late-1950s and early-1960s houses (17%) and 1970s and early-1980s houses (8%), the same scheme is drawn differently to answer the concerns officers raise here. Wigston All Saints contains All Saints, Grand Union Canal, The Lanes conservation areas (All Saints designated 1977), so materials, fenestration and roof form are assessed against the appraisal, so the pack is built to pre-empt exactly that.

Where the property sits in a conservation area — All Saints, Grand Union Canal and The Lanes among Wigston All Saints's — validation is stricter still, often demanding heritage detail and sometimes additional plans. No Article 4 direction is recorded for Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, but Wigston All Saints's 3 conservation areas still limit permitted development on those streets. We confirm the designation before drawing so the pack meets the higher bar first time.