Flats plan for former school
PREVIOUS PROPOSAL FOR SHARED HOUSE REJECTED AFTER RESIDENTS’ OBJECTIONS
STUDENT police officers proved their job isn’t just about catching criminals after they were sent to round up a group of unruly sheep found “trespassing” in a field.
The landowner noticed the sheep - well over a dozen - had turned up unexpectedly in the field in Quorn overnight.
On Sunday morning it was up to the long arm of the law to try to
A FORMER school in Leicester could become 17 flats if plans are approved.
The planning application to convert the empty three-storey former Leicester Montessori School, on Stoneygate Road at its junction with Aber Road in Stoneygate, was submitted at the beginning of July.
Previously, in 2019, a plan was submitted to turn the building into a 35-bedroom shared house.
This application was rejected after it received over 100 objections, with some people fearing it would make the former school a “legalised slum”.
The new submission took the rejection into account and now prograb them - by hook or by crook.
The sheep were successfully rounded up and now police are appealing for help working out who their rightful owners are - after joking on Facebook that the capture wasn’t “shear” luck - and that no sheep were harmed in the making of their post!
There have been recent cases of sheep thieves trying to secretly poses an apartment scheme rather than a house of multiple occupations.
The applicant, Kieran Dayah, has written: “This application seeks full hide their stolen livestock on other people’s land.
And sheep rustling is a huge problem around the UK, with the farming insurer NFU Mutual saying animals worth £3 million were stolen from UK farms in 2019.
The police in Charnwood posted these pictures on social media, along with the caption: “Partnership working at its best! planning for the conversion, extension and alteration of the existing building into 12 dwellings with associated open space, vehicular access, parking and landscaping.
The Anstey, Barrow and Birstall beat officers are currently in Quorn trying to identify these sheep that have appeared in a field overnight.
“The student officers are definitely proving their worth. If you know who they belong to please call us.”
If you have information that will help get the animals home, contact police by calling 101.
“The proposed development would be served by a new point of vehicular access from Aber Road. The access road is designed in accordance with current 6Cs design guidance standards (which sets out the general principles and minimum standards for roads and paved areas), which require a 4.8 metrewide access road, with appropriate junction. Off-road parking would be provided.”
The proposal also states that neighbours to the site have been consulted, following their objection to the previous 35-bedroom home plan.
The applicant says the neighbours are “much more content” with this use of the building.
Most of the work will be carried out internally, however, parts of the building are planned to be demolished, with a first and second storey extension being put into place.
The building will be comprised of: one apartment with three bedrooms, 13 apartments with two bedrooms and three one-bedroom apartments.
The building was built in 1880 as a hostel for women and was run by philanthropists and religious leaders.
It became a school in 1930, reverting to an NHS hostel in the late 1950s before becoming the Montessori school in the mid-1990s. It has now been empty for around four years.
The consultation period for this current application will take place until October 6.
The target decision date is December 7 of this year.