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M1 Service Area Watford Gap Southbound, Station Road, Watford

2023/5944/FULLFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 2 October 2023

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed Electric Vehicle charging area including canopy and free standing identification sign

Received
28 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Long Buckby
  1. Received28 May
  2. Validated28 May
  3. Consult.22 Aug
  4. Target30 Sep
  5. Decided2 Oct

Decided in 127 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at M1 Service Area Watford Gap Southbound, Station Road, Watford. West Northamptonshire has handled 9,971 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.

89% of full 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
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Watford

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 May 2023
Last date for comments
22 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
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Grand Union and Oxford CanalsPart of the site

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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Source: West Northamptonshire

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