1 Stour Road Northampton NN5 5AA

2025/4767/LDPLawful Development Certificate (Proposed)Refused

Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 March 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful development certificate (proposed) to add MOT service to current car repair service business

Received: 3 November 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: West Northamptonshire Council
Ward: Dallington Spencer Ward

ReceivedReceived3 Nov
ValidatedValidated8 Dec
Consult.Consultation6 Mar
TargetTarget Date2 Feb
DecidedDecided10 Mar

Decided in 92 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application at 1 Stour Road Northampton NN5 5AA. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 127 days, 8 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Dallington Spencer Ward. We hold 788 applications in total for the NN5 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: NN5 5AA
Application type: Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed)
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Northampton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 December 2025
Last date for comments: 6 March 2026
Target decision date: 2 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 7

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.

Source: West Northamptonshire

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