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78B St James Park Road Northampton NN5 5EL

2026/0976/FULLFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 26 June 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use from ground floor residential flat (class C3) to children’s home (class C2)

Received
26 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dallington Spencer Ward
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated16 Mar
  3. Consult.21 Apr
  4. Target11 May
  5. Decided26 Jun

Decided in 102 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 78B St James Park Road Northampton NN5 5EL. West Northamptonshire has handled 9,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 7 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.

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
NN5 5EL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northampton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 March 2026
Last date for comments
21 April 2026
Target decision date
11 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Graham Northern 6 May Terrace Barnsley South Yorkshire S70 6HS

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 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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