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Hill Farm Upper Heyford Northamptonshire NN7 3NB

2025/5089/MAFFull Planning Permission (Major)Approved
Full

Approved on 19 May 2026

Council decision: ApprovalPlanning committee17 conditions

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

Proposal

Construction of Commercial Units (Use Class B2 and B8) Including Ancillary Office Space and Associated Access and Parking

Received
28 November 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Campion Ward
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 172 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Hill Farm Upper Heyford Northamptonshire NN7 3NB. West Northamptonshire has handled 9,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 172 days, 15 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 100 applications across Campion Ward. We hold 2,911 applications in total for the NN7 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
NN7 3NB
Application type
Full Planning Permission (Major)
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Upper Heyford

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2025
Last date for comments
14 April 2026
Target decision date
21 May 2026
Committee meeting
19 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Matthew Sharpe Thistledown Barn Holcot Lane Sywell Northampton NN6 0BG

Planning decision

Statutory period
174 days

Additional information

Documents
58

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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