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1 Draycott Close Northampton NN3 3BD

2025/3141/LDPLawful Development Certificate (Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 September 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Development Comprising of Conversion of existing integral garage (2.34m x 4.62m) to habitable room.

Received
17 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weston Favell and Abington Vale Ward
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Sep
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 71 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 1 Draycott Close Northampton NN3 3BD. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Weston Favell and Abington Vale Ward. We hold 1,870 applications in total for the NN3 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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Application details

Postcode
NN3 3BD
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Northampton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2025
Target decision date
26 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
71 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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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