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60 Gold Street Northampton NN1 1RS

2025/4914/LDELawful Development Certificate (Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 26 February 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

To confirm that planning approval WNN/2022/1096 [Change of Use of no 60 Gold Street and 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of 56-58 Gold Street from Offices (Use Class E) to Hostel (Sui Generis)] has been implemented within its validity period.

Received
14 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle Ward
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Jan
  5. Decided26 Feb

Decided in 104 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 60 Gold Street Northampton NN1 1RS. West Northamptonshire has handled 540 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 5 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. The site is in the All Saints conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

91% of amendment 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 1RS
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northampton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Target decision date
9 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 4b Cottage Farm Sywell NN6 0BJ

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.

  • Conservation area: All Saints
  • Brownfield land register: Northampton: 34 - 34A Gold Street NN1 1RSRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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