The Hinckley and Bosworth Council Planning Committee is scheduled to meet on 7 October 2025 to discuss several planning applications, including proposals for new housing developments, a distribution hub, and updates on appeals. The committee will also review the minutes from their previous meeting.

Here's a closer look at the topics the committee is expected to address:

Housing Developments

Several housing developments are up for discussion, including:

• Land off Brascote Lane, Newbold Verdon: An outline application for up to 135 dwellings, with associated landscaping, open space, and drainage infrastructure is to be discussed. All matters are reserved except for access.

• Ashfield Farm, Kirkby Road, Desford: The committee will consider an application for approval of reserved matters relating to appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale for the erection of 120 dwellings. This is attached to planning permission 22/01227/OUT, and includes discussion of conditions relating to ecological constraints, biodiversity, surface water scheme, and site investigation.

Trinity Marina Apartments

A full planning application 22/00839/FUL Trinity Marina FINAL.pdf for three apartment blocks comprising 76 one and two-bedroom apartments with associated parking and landscaping at Trinity Marina, Coventry Road, Hinckley is up for discussion. According to the report pack, the applicant has stated that the apartments will all be for rented accommodation.

The report pack notes that there have been revisions to the application since it was first submitted:

Both the application description and the detailed design of the apartments have been significantly amended since the application was first submitted. The number of apartments has been increased from 73 to 76 and no three bed apartments are now proposed. The detailed design of the buildings has been revised to take account of land ownership clarification, utilities restrictions on the site and changes to provide a more efficient use of floorspace. This has resulted in changes to the siting, scale and appearance of the three proposed apartment buildings. The revisions have also enabled all apartments to now be dual aspect.

The report pack also notes that a viability appraisal has been submitted, and independently assessed, which has resulted in a proportion of the financial contributions usually required being made, and none of the dwellings would be classified as affordable homes.

Wiggs Farm Distribution Hub

The committee will also discuss an application 25/00523/FUL Pall-Ex Committee Report FINAL.pdf for the erection of a B8 distribution hub¹ with ancillary offices, a quality control office and canopy, maintenance units, a gatehouse, associated infrastructure, and landscaping at Wiggs Farm, Wood Road, Nailstone.

The distribution hub is proposed to provide a new headquarters for Pall-Ex Group. The report pack states that Pall-Ex Group's main headquarters is currently located to the north east of the site, on the opposite side of the junction of Wood Road and Station Road, within North West Leicestershire District, and that Pall-Ex have outgrown the existing hub.

The report pack notes that the proposal is an EIA development² under the Town and Country Planning (EIA) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017, and that an Environmental Statement (ES) has been produced to examine and evaluate the likely environmental effects of the development.

North West Leicestershire District Council have objected to the application on the basis that the application is premature when accounting for the allocation of land to the north of Wood Road as part of the emerging North West Leicestershire Local Plan, as well as the potential allocation of the application site as part of the emerging Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council Local Plan, and the need for the cumulative highway impacts of development on both sites to be appropriately addressed together.

Appeals Progress

The committee is scheduled to receive a report on the progress of various appeals Appeals progress.pdf.

The report pack lists the following appeals:

• 24/00831/OUT: Land off York Close, Market Bosworth (100 dwellings). The appeal is scheduled for an informal hearing on 28 October 2025. The appellant is Gladman Developments Ltd.
• 23/00824/OUT: Land off Barwell Lane, Kirby Mallory (7 dwellings). The appellant is Mr L Lawrence.
• 25/00597/TPO: Shady Trees, 19 Station Road, Desford (Raise canopy to 5m). The appellant is Mr Nunn.
• 25/00329/HOU: 2 Sycamore Drive, Groby (Erection of a 1800mm high fence). The appellant is MR Harjinder Dosanjh.
• 22/01121/CLE: Wide View Fenn Lane, Fenny Drayton (Use of land for storage of agricultural machinery, vehicles, and materials). The appellant is Lindley Hall Farms Ltd.
• 23/01098/TPO: 28 Spinney Drive, Botcheston (Carry out works to protected trees, to fell T1 Canadian Pine). The appellant is Claire Bradbury.
• 21/00251/UNUSES: Land at Shenton Lane, Upton (Use of agricultural land for car sales business). The appellant is Mr J Hemmings.
• 24/00975/OUT: Land ne of Old White Cottage 2 Newbold Road Desford (Outline application for the construction of a 3-bedroom split-level dwelling with landscaping (Self-Build)). The appellant is Mr G Warren.
• 24/00322/FUL: White House Bosworth Road Wellsborough (Erection of single storey self build/custom-build dwelling (Resubmission of 23/00923/FUL). The appellants are Mr & Mrs Simon & Jill Warner.
• 24/00229/FUL: Oddfellows Higham-On-The-Hill (Proposed development of 7 dwellings – the conversion of the existing building into 2 dwellings and 5 new build properties). The appellant is Mrs Nicola Lea. The appeal is scheduled for an informal hearing on 10 September 2025.
• 25/00080/FUL: Land Adjacent 29 Elizabeth Road, Hinckley (New build detached dwelling). The appellant is Mr John Roux.
• 25/00081/FUL: Land opposite Paddock View, Twycross Road, Sheepy Magna (Change of use of agricultural land to domestic garden). The appellants are Mr and Mrs G Pratt.
• 24/00125/HOU, 24/00004/UNHOUS: 69 Burbage Road Burbage (Erection of a timber fence to front of the property). The appellant is Mr Mark Lester.
• 24/00657/FUL: Barnhills Farm, Merrylees Road, Thornton (Erection of two storey childcare facility with ancillary services and associated external play areas and animal interaction areas). The appeal was dismissed on 1 August 2025. The appellants are Mr and Mrs Gary and Amy Knight.
• 24/00270/FUL: Land North of Pipe Lane Orton on the Hill (The erection of one detached dwelling, formation of access from Pipe Lane and associated works). The appeal was dismissed on 1 August 2025. The appellant is Mrs Pauline Taylor.
• 24/00872/OUT: Land SW Sibson Road Sheepy Parva (Outline planning permission for the erection of a single self-build dwelling (all matters reserved except for access)). The appeal was dismissed on 4 August 2025. The appellants are Mr & Mrs G Morley.
• 24/00596/FUL: 7 Springfield Road Hinckley (Proposed wooden cattery). The appeal was allowed on 7 August 2025. The appellant is Ms Gillian Nicol.
• 24/00757/CONDIT: Barton Hill Fields Farm Barton in the Beans (Variation of condition 3 16/00640/FUL). The appeal was dismissed on 8 September 2025. The appellant is Mr Chris Mee.

Other Business

The agenda also includes standard items such as apologies for absence, declarations of interest, questions from the public, and decisions delegated at the previous meeting.