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United Reformed Church, Fox Street, Rothwell, NN14 6AN

NK/2024/0209Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 14 August 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use from church to 1 no. dwelling including additional 2 no. windows to the side elevation, alterations to 14 no. windows and solar panels to rear

Received
25 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Kettering
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.25 May
  4. Target20 Jun
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 111 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at United Reformed Church, Fox Street, Rothwell, NN14 6AN. Kettering has handled 873 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 8 weeks longer than Kettering's typical decision time. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 9 other applications at this address. We hold 1,846 applications in total for the NN14 postcode area.

90% of full applications at Kettering were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NN14 6AN
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2024
Consultation expiry
27 May 2024
Neighbour consultation start
1 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
25 May 2024
Target decision date
20 June 2024
Application expires
20 June 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 May 2024
Site notice end
27 May 2024

Appeal history

3358199
Dismissed
Type: Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent AppealProcedure: HearingDecision: 27 May 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
45

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    25 Apr

    Change of use from church to 1 no. dwelling including additional 2 no. windows to the side elevation…

    This applicationRefusedFullNK/2024/0209
  2. 2024
    25 Apr

    Change of use from church to 1 no. dwelling including additional 2 no. windows to side elevation, alterations…

    RefusedListed building consentFiled alongsideNK/2024/0214

Planning history at this site

8 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    6 Mar

    Replace 11 no. ground floor wood frame single pane windows with double glazed windows

    PendingListed building consentNK/2025/0117
  2. 2025
    24 Jan

    Installation of 2 no. automated gates to Fox Street and Evison Road entrances, new fence and gate to John…

    PendingListed building consentNK/2025/0017
  3. 2024
    10 Dec

    Installation of pv solar panel arrays to the south elevation

    PendingListed building consentNK/2024/0658
  4. 2024
    22 Nov

    Conversion of the old ground floor school room into a kitchen

    PendingListed building consentNK/2024/0672
  5. 2024
    21 Nov

    Insertion of an internal door between the chamberlain office (former choir vestry) and the chamberlain room

    PendingListed building consentNK/2024/0652
  6. 2024
    21 Nov

    Repair or replace existing windows with wooden and rainwater furniture with cast iron like for like materials

    PendingListed building consentNK/2024/0649

Source: Kettering

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