East Midlands
Leicester, city and county kept apart
Leicester City Council decides planning applications in the city. Leicestershire County Council is the authority for much of the county, and it is a different children’s services department. A policy set headed only “Leicester” usually fails that test.
The East Midlands had 460 children’s homes at 31 March 2025. Leicester’s share of that number is not published in the table we cite, so we do not guess it.
Fiveways is based in Birmingham. This page is about the work in Leicester, not a local branch.
Planning applications in this area are decided by Leicester City Council.
- Policies are useful when a member of staff can follow them on a late shift. We edit for that, not for a thicker folder.
- CQC supported living and Ofsted children’s homes are both present in the city. The first question is which regime you are actually in.
- Coventry and Leicester are a similar distance from Birmingham and they are not interchangeable plans.
The work that usually belongs here
Questions that come up here
Do you write policies from a template with the city name changed?
No. A template that only swaps the city is the problem we are often asked to undo.
Can consultancy experience decide our registration?
No. The decision on an application still belongs to Ofsted or CQC.
Nearby, and not the same
- Nottingham — The unitary city and the county ask different questions.
- Coventry — A different local plan from the city next door.
- Derby — City council and county council are not synonyms.