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Selling Land in Blaby

Blaby District runs from Leicester's south western suburbs out to the villages along the M69. The council reports 2.78 years of housing land against the five national policy expects, and its new Local Plan to 2042 has just had its final round of comments.

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Blaby District in Brief

Blaby District Council covers the suburbs on Leicester's south western edge, from Glenfield and Kirby Muxloe to Glen Parva and the new community at Lubbesthorpe, together with larger villages such as Blaby, Narborough and Whetstone and smaller ones reaching south to Sapcote and Stoney Stanton.

86% in the Housing Delivery Test 2025. The council built 863 homes against 998 needed. That is under the 95% mark, so an action plan is required, but above 85%, so no 20% buffer is added.
A strategy from 2013. The Core Strategy was adopted in February 2013. Since December 2024 the council has measured delivery against the government's standard method instead, which its latest land report puts at 539 homes a year.
Well short on land supply. That report, based at 1 April 2025, gives a supply of 2.78 years.
A plan for 2025 to 2042 nearly ready. The Proposed Submission Local Plan was open for comments from 8 July until noon on 7 September 2026.

Blaby is not far behind on building, yet it is well short of land it can show will be built within five years. That shortfall, more than the delivery score, shapes most applications here today.

Blaby in Figures

The government's latest figures for the council, and where its local plan stands.

Housing Delivery Test 2025
86%
Below 95%: the council must publish an action plan to improve delivery.
Homes built against homes needed
863
of 998 needed, April 2022 to March 2025
Most recent strategic plan adopted
February 2013
More than five years old, so its housing figures are usually replaced by the government's standard method.
New plan progress
Published for consultation
As at July 2026.

Sources: Housing Delivery Test: 2025 measurement, MHCLG, published 17 August 2026; Local plans: monitoring progress, Planning Inspectorate, August 2026. Local plans move quickly, so always check the council's own website for the latest position.

What a 2.78 Year Supply Means for Your Land

Because Blaby scored above 75%, the delivery test on its own does not bring the unmet need route in policy S5 of the August 2026 National Planning Policy Framework into play. A shortfall in the five-year supply of deliverable sites counts as evidence of unmet need in its own right, though, and at under three years that evidence is plain. The council accepts the consequence in its own words: its Local Plan questions and answers say the shortage "leaves the district at risk of speculative development for a temporary period until the Local Plan is adopted".

Two Recent Appeals

In November 2025 an inspector allowed up to 155 homes, 39 of them affordable, on open countryside outside the settlement boundary at Littlethorpe. The inspector found the landscape harm acceptable, noting that the site sits against existing development without merging with Narborough.

In July 2026, after a public inquiry in May, a second inspector allowed up to 200 homes at Blaby Golf Centre on Lutterworth Road, a scheme the planning committee had refused in July 2025. The inspector described a "severe shortfall" in land supply and found the homes would do "very little harm" to the Green Wedge there. The council said it was disappointed.

Why You May See 2.78 or 2.45 Years

The council's own figure is 2.78 years, calculated from 539 homes a year plus a 5% buffer and a deliverable supply of 1,575 homes between April 2025 and March 2030. Reporting of the Littlethorpe decision gives that inspector's figure as 2.45 years. At appeal an inspector tests the council's list site by site and can strike out any without clear evidence of delivery, which usually gives a lower number. For a landowner the gap changes nothing: both are far below five years.

How We Judge a Field on the Edge of a Blaby Village

Does it sit against the village? A field bounded by gardens, a road or a recreation ground reads as part of the settlement; one out in open country does not.
Does it keep villages apart? Green Wedges exist to stop settlements merging and to give towns a green lung. A site inside one is harder, but not ruled out.
Can traffic get in and out safely? On village lanes this often decides the case, so we check it first.
Is the benefit clear? Affordable homes, open space and a sensible scale all count in the S5 balance.

How S5 treats unmet need is covered in our guide to the 2026 National Planning Policy Framework.

The Proposed Submission Local Plan, 2025 to 2042

The plan sets a requirement of 11,195 homes over seventeen years. Its housing position statement counts 5,163 already built, under construction or with permission, adds 480 from windfall sites and allocates land for about 7,310 more, a total of 12,953 including a margin for sites that slip. The council says the numbers take account of national policy and of evidence prepared jointly by the Leicester and Leicestershire authorities.

Tier in the plan	Settlements	Homes 2025 to 2042 (share)
Principal Urban Area	Braunstone Town, Glenfield, Glen Parva, Kirby Muxloe, Leicester Forest East, Lubbesthorpe	6,188 (47.77%)
Larger villages	Blaby, Countesthorpe, Enderby, Narborough, Whetstone	2,917 (22.52%)
Medium villages	Cosby, Croft, Huncote, Littlethorpe, Sapcote, Stoney Stanton	1,487 (11.47%)
Small villages	Elmesthorpe, Kilby, Sharnford, Thurlaston	116 (0.90%)
Stand-alone strategic sites	Land west of Stoney Stanton, Whetstone Pastures	1,765 (13.63%)
Windfalls	Unidentified smaller sites across the district	480 (3.71%)

The spread is uneven. Lubbesthorpe alone accounts for 3,858 homes, most already committed. Blaby, Whetstone, Countesthorpe and Narborough each take between 560 and 778 new allocated homes, while Braunstone Town, Enderby, Glen Parva and Croft receive no new allocations at all.

The Two Strategic Sites

Land west of Stoney Stanton is allocated for around 5,165 homes in total, of which at least 965 are expected by 2042, with local employment land and 36 hectares for strategic warehousing. The policy asks for south-facing slip roads at junction 2 of the M69, a link road to keep lorries out of Sapcote and Stoney Stanton, and land safeguarded for a possible station between Hinckley and Narborough. Whetstone Pastures supplies the other 800 plan period homes. The Stoney Stanton site is clearly a long-term place that will keep building well after 2042, and its policy asks for at least a quarter of its homes to be affordable.

If Your Land Is Not in the Draft

A field left out of the draft is not finished. Every consultation comment goes to the inspector, who can recommend changes, and while supply stays short an application under S5 can run alongside the plan. The steps from here to adoption are set out in our guide to call for sites and local plans.

Neighbourhood Plans and Village Edges

Five parts of the district have neighbourhood plans, which count alongside the council's own when applications are decided:

Blaby, following a referendum on 1 February 2018.
Leicester Forest East, made by the council on 19 July 2022.
Cosby, following a referendum on 24 November 2022.
Glenfield, adopted on 28 November 2023.
Fosse Villages, made on 30 January 2024.

Where a neighbourhood plan draws a village boundary or names local green spaces, we read it first, because it often shows which edge of a village is more acceptable. It does not switch off national policy where supply is short, so well placed land in these parishes still deserves a proper look.

Scale matters too: suburbs next to the city have buses and services close by, while smaller villages are judged on whether new homes suit their size.

The Land We Look for in Blaby

Fields that adjoin the built edge of Blaby, Countesthorpe, Narborough, Whetstone or Enderby.
Land on the suburban fringe at Glenfield, Kirby Muxloe, Leicester Forest East or Glen Parva.
Paddocks and small sites beside Cosby, Huncote, Littlethorpe or Sapcote that would suit a modest scheme.
Former commercial, leisure or yard sites next to a settlement.
Land with an existing road frontage, or a realistic route to one.
Larger holdings that could add to the growth the new plan already expects.

Land in a Green Wedge or open countryside faces a stiffer test, and we will say so plainly. Where we go ahead, the price is agreed at the start, we pay for every part of the planning work, and we contribute towards your own solicitor and land agent so getting the paperwork done properly costs you nothing.

What We Are Watching in Blaby

The Next Housing Delivery Test

The government publishes the test once a year, and the latest, the Housing Delivery Test 2025, came out on 17 August 2026. At 86%, Blaby sits in the band where only an action plan is needed. A fall below 85% would add a 20% buffer to the five-year requirement, widening the supply gap, and a fall below 75% would open the S5 route through the delivery test too. Reaching 95% would remove the need for an action plan, though it would do nothing for the shortage of land. The council's latest land report runs only to March 2025, so there is no published early sign for 2025/26 yet.

The Next Land Supply Statement

The 2.78 year figure dates from April 2025. The next report should count homes permitted since, such as Littlethorpe, though how far that moves the figure depends on how fast sites deliver.

Submission of the New Plan

The council's timetable shows the plan going to Full Council on 24 November 2026 for a decision on submission, with the aim of submitting by December 2026 and hearings expected in spring 2027. A submitted plan carries more weight than a draft. Once adopted, it must show a five-year supply from the start, which is when the S5 argument would usually weaken.

Reorganisation, Paused and Challenged

The government decided in July 2026 to split Blaby's area between two unitary councils from April 2028, one based on an enlarged Leicester. On 7 September it paused that decision for a review, and the council says next May's elections will use existing boundaries. On 21 September Blaby and four other Leicestershire councils sent a pre-action letter, the first step towards a judicial review. Either way, the current plan stays in force until a successor council replaces it.

What This Means for Timing

Today's position rests on a supply well under five years and a plan not yet adopted, and neither lasts for ever. For land that fits the tests above, starting the evidence work now means an application can be judged while the shortfall still carries weight, and the same evidence stays useful at examination if the plan moves first.

Questions Blaby Landowners Ask Us

Blaby scored 86%. Does the housing shortage still help my land?

Yes, through land supply rather than the delivery score. With the council reporting 2.78 years, national policy treats unmet need as shown, and two inspectors have allowed homes on sites the council resisted, on that basis, within the last year. Your land still has to sit well against a settlement.

My land is in a Green Wedge. Is there any point?

Sometimes. Green Wedges exist to keep places apart, so the question is whether homes on your land would actually close a gap. At the Golf Centre an inspector found very little harm to the wedge. We will give you an honest view after our review.

The draft plan gives my village no new allocations. What does that mean?

Enderby, Braunstone Town, Glen Parva and Croft have none in the draft. That is a choice about where growth goes, not a ban. While supply is short a well placed site can still be put forward by application, and land inside a village is supported by policy S4.

Who will decide an application on my land if the councils change?

For now Blaby District Council does, using its adopted plan and national policy. Reorganisation is paused and facing a legal challenge, and the council says its plan continues until a successor council replaces it.

What happens after I send you the location?

We check the plan, the appeal decisions, the flood maps and the access, and tell you what we think before anything is signed. Our how it works page walks through each stage, and there is more on the wider county on our Leicestershire page.

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Sources

Figures on this page come from the Housing Delivery Test 2025 (published 17 August 2026) and the Planning Inspectorate's local plan monitoring to August 2026, with newer plan milestones checked on 24 September 2026. We update the page when new results or plan milestones are published. Planning positions change quickly, so always check the council's own website before relying on it.