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City Buildings, Unit 1, 17 Fish Street, Northampton, NN1 2AA

2025/0253/LBCListed Building Consent (Alteration)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 27 August 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Listed Building consent for change of Use from a bar [Sui Generis] to a restaurant [Use Class E(b]) with internal arrangement to the basement & ground floor.

Received
15 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle Ward
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated28 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Apr
  4. Target29 Aug
  5. Decided27 Aug

Decided in 180 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at City Buildings, Unit 1, 17 Fish Street, Northampton, NN1 2AA. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,201 applications of this type. This one was decided in 224 days, 22 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Derngate conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across Castle Ward. We hold 1,931 applications in total for the NN1 postcode area.

88% of heritage 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
NN1 2AA
Application type
Listed Building Consent (Alteration)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Northampton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 February 2025
Last date for comments
17 April 2025
Target decision date
29 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Christopher Warren Unit 1 Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate Rushden NN10 6BQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
182 days

Additional information

Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Derngate
  • Listed building: Grade II: City BuildingsOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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. 2025
    15 Jan

    Change of Use from a bar [Sui Generis] to a restaurant [Use Class E(b]) with internal arrangement to the…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside2025/0248/FULL
  2. 2025
    15 Jan

    Listed Building consent for change of Use from a bar [Sui Generis] to a restaurant [Use Class E(b]) with…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent2025/0253/LBC

Source: West Northamptonshire

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