M1 Service Area Watford Gap Northbound Station Road Watford

2023/5943/ADVAdvertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 2 October 2023

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Free standing identification sign

Received: 28 May 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: West Northamptonshire Council
Ward: Long Buckby

ReceivedReceived28 May
ValidatedValidated28 May
Consult.Consultation18 Aug
TargetTarget Date30 Sep
DecidedDecided2 Oct

Decided in 127 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at M1 Service Area Watford Gap Northbound Station Road Watford. West Northamptonshire has handled 348 applications of this type. This one was decided in 127 days, 8 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Long Buckby. We hold 2,158 applications in total for the NN6 postcode area.

92% of advertising applications at West Northamptonshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: NN6 7UZ
Application type: Advertisement Consent
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Watford

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 May 2023
Last date for comments: 18 August 2023
Target decision date: 30 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Mr Garry Nevill 3 The Drive Kettering NN15 7EX

Planning decision

Statutory period: 125 days

Additional information

Documents: 13

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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.

Source: West Northamptonshire

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