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Unit 1 City Buildings, 17 Fish Street, Northampton, NN1 2AA

WNN/2022/1349Listed Building Consent (Alteration)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 30 January 2023

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Listed Building Consent Application for Change of Use from Restaurant (Use Class E(b)) to Bar (Sui Generis)

Received
13 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle Ward
  1. Received13 Dec
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.20 Jan
  4. Target7 Feb
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 48 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Unit 1 City Buildings, 17 Fish Street, Northampton, NN1 2AA. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,201 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Derngate conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across Castle Ward. We hold 1,931 applications in total for the NN1 postcode area.

88% of heritage 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
NN1 2AA
Application type
Listed Building Consent (Alteration)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Northampton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2022
Last date for comments
20 January 2023
Target decision date
7 February 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Chris Warren 13 High Street Finedon NN9 5JN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Derngate
  • Listed building: Grade II: City BuildingsOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2022
    13 Dec

    Change of Use from Restaurant (Use Class E(b)) into Bar (Sui Generis)

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongsideWNN/2022/1348
  2. 2022
    13 Dec

    Listed Building Consent Application for Change of Use from Restaurant (Use Class E(b)) to Bar (Sui Generis)

    This applicationApprovedListed building consentWNN/2022/1349

Source: West Northamptonshire

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