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Far Cotton Working Mens Club Main Road Far Cotton Northampton NN4 8EN

2025/4212/FULLFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 13 April 2026

Council decision: ApprovalPlanning committee9 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of Use from Use Class Sui Generis to Use Classes F1(f) [Public & Community Use], E(b) [Commercial, Business & Service Use], and Sui Generis.

Received
24 September 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Far Cotton, Delapre and Briar Hill Ward
  1. Received24 Sep
  2. Validated24 Sep
  3. Consult.17 Nov
  4. Target16 Jan
  5. Decided13 Apr

Decided in 201 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Far Cotton Working Mens Club Main Road Far Cotton Northampton NN4 8EN. West Northamptonshire has handled 9,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 201 days, 19 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Far Cotton, Delapre and Briar Hill Ward. We hold 1,608 applications in total for the NN4 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
NN4 8EN
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Far Cotton and Delapre Community Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 September 2025
Last date for comments
17 November 2025
Target decision date
16 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Hartington Road Brighton BN2 3LJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
114 days

Additional information

Documents
19

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 3: High 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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