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Land adjacent to 4 Brittain Cottages Blisworth Road Gayton

2024/5441/PAPrior ApprovalRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 16 January 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Determination as to whether prior approval is required (under Class Q of Part 3 of the above Order) for the change of use of an existing agricultural building to one dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) including single storey extension to rear and associated building operations

Received
22 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bugbrooke
  1. Received22 Nov
  2. Validated22 Nov
  3. Consult.4 Jan
  4. Target16 Jan
  5. Decided16 Jan

Decided in 55 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Land adjacent to 4 Brittain Cottages Blisworth Road Gayton. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 2 weeks quicker than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

84% of outline 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

Application type
Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Gayton

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 November 2024
Last date for comments
4 January 2025
Target decision date
16 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Stanton Avenue Spinney Hill Northampton NN3 6BZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
14

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.

Source: West Northamptonshire

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