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Overstone Farm Billing Lane (Formerly Sywell Road) Overstone Northamptonshire NN6 0AB

DA/2019/0001Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 10 February 2020

Council decision: ApprovalPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Hybrid planning application - Retention and conversion of farmhouse to 4 No. apartments and farm buildings into 7 No. dwellings and 8 No. single storey dwellings (full application) and demolition of steel framed and brick barns and erection of up to 31 No. dwellings, up to 40 No. retirement apartments and 70 No. bed care home with associated open space and vehicular access from Billing Lane (formerly Sywell Road) and footpath connections (outline application).

Received
4 January 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
MOULTON
  1. Received4 Jan
  2. Validated21 Jan
  3. Consult.28 Feb
  4. Target10 Feb
  5. Decided10 Feb

Decided in 385 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Overstone Farm Billing Lane (Formerly Sywell Road) Overstone Northamptonshire NN6 0AB. West Northamptonshire has handled 9,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 402 days, 47 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,158 applications in total for the NN6 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
NN6 0AB
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
31
Parish
Overstone

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 January 2019
Last date for comments
28 February 2019
Target decision date
10 February 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
42, Headlands, Kettering, NN15 7HR

Planning decision

Statutory period
385 days

Additional information

Documents
55

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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