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

N/2019/0651Other Authority ConsultationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 June 2019

Council decision: Other - Please see decision notice for detailsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

DA/2019/0001 (Amended) - Hybrid planning application – Retention and conversion of farmhouse to 4 No. apartments and farm building into 7 No. dwellings and 8 No. single storey dwellings (full application) and demolition of steel frame and brick barns and erection of up to 55 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
20 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received20 May
  2. Validated20 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Jun
  5. Decided3 Jun

Decided in 14 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Overstone Farm Billing Lane (Formerly Sywell Road) Overstone Northamptonshire NN6 0AB. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,500 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 8 weeks quicker 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.

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
NN6 0AB
Application type
Other Authority Consultation
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
55

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 May 2019
Target decision date
10 June 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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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