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London Barn, NN13 5PB

2025/1341/PAPrior ApprovalRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 3 July 2026

Council decision: Refusal of Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

A stone and brick built barn conversion with a tin roof. The buildings are set around a former yard, itself in the middle of a field.

Received
2 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Middleton Cheney
  1. Received2 Apr
  2. Validated4 Apr
  3. Consult.19 Sep
  4. Target13 Mar
  5. Decided3 Jul

Decided in 455 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application at London Barn , NN13 5PB. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 457 days, 55 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Farthinghoe conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Middleton Cheney. We hold 472 applications in total for the NN13 postcode area.

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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Why it was refused

  1. The submitted Site Location Plan identifies a residential curtilage that extends beyond the area immediately beside or around the agricultural building exceeding the footprint of the converted buildings as defined within Paragraph X of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) which is applicable for Class Q (agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses) applications. Consequently, the proposal does not satisfy the requirements of Class Q and does not benefit from permitted development rights.
  2. The former access track serving the site has been ploughed over and would require reinstatement, whilst there would be a requirement for the creation and formalisation of an access onto the public highway. The Local Planning Authority is therefore not satisfied that a suitable existing access is available to serve the proposed dwelling and as such Prior approval is required in respect of the transport and highways impacts of the development. As such, insufficient information has been provided to demonstrate that the proposal would provide safe and satisfactory access arrangements which in turn with the lack of access to the building(s) would make the location and siting impractical and undesirable for residential use. The application is therefore refused in respect of these impacts under Paragraph Q2 – (1) (a) and (e) of Class Q, Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended). and any conditions imposed by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 Checked by: CB

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
NN13 5PB
Application type
Prior Approval
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Farthinghoe

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 April 2025
Last date for comments
19 September 2025
Target decision date
13 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mrs Clare Nash 3 Towrise Banbury OX17 2SB

Planning decision

Statutory period
343 days

Additional information

Documents
23

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: Farthinghoe
  • 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 (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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