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Holiday Inn Express Loake Close Grange Park NN4 5EZ

2026/3178/PAPrior ApprovalRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 24 September 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Determination as to whether prior approval is required (under schedule 2,part 1,class J of the above order) for Installation of a roof-mounted solar PV system, comprising of 293 x 450w modules, totalling 132 kWp.

Received
31 July 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Nene Valley Ward
  1. Received31 Jul
  2. Validated31 Jul
  3. Consult.31 Aug
  4. Target24 Sep
  5. Decided24 Sep

Decided in 55 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Holiday Inn Express Loake Close Grange Park NN4 5EZ. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 2 weeks quicker than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Nene Valley Ward. We hold 1,608 applications in total for the NN4 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
NN4 5EZ
Application type
Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Grange Park

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 July 2026
Last date for comments
31 August 2026
Target decision date
24 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ms Eilidh Stanfield 138 Cheapside Third Floor London EC2V 6BJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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