Upton Lodge Farm Units 4-8 Astrop Road Middleton Cheney OX17 2PJ

2026/0856/LDELawful Development Certificate (Existing)Approved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 12 May 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful development certificate (existing) for use of Units 4-8 for Class B8 storage and general business use

Received: 18 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: West Northamptonshire Council
Ward: Middleton Cheney

ReceivedReceived18 Feb
ValidatedValidated18 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date15 Apr
DecidedDecided12 May

Decided in 83 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Upton Lodge Farm Units 4-8 Astrop Road Middleton Cheney OX17 2PJ. West Northamptonshire has handled 540 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 13 days longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Middleton Cheney. We hold 2,187 applications in total for the OX17 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: OX17 2PJ
Application type: Lawful Development Certificate (Existing)
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Middleton Cheney

Planning application dates

Date validated: 18 February 2026
Target decision date: 15 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 29

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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