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Beethoven House, 32 Market Square, Northampton, NN1 2DQ

WNN/2023/0246Listed Building Consent (Alteration)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 11 October 2023

Council decision: ApprovalPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Listed Building Consent Application for Change of Use of existing offices (Class E) to House in Multiple Occupancy for 15No persons (Sui Generis) at first, second and third floor levels. Class E use retained at ground floor level. To include external and internal alterations as shown on submitted drawings

Received
7 March 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Castle Ward
  1. Received7 Mar
  2. Validated7 Mar
  3. Consult.6 Sep
  4. Target11 Oct
  5. Decided11 Oct

Decided in 218 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Beethoven House , 32 Market Square, Northampton, NN1 2DQ. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,201 applications of this type. This one was decided in 218 days, 21 weeks longer than West Northamptonshire's typical decision time. The site is in the All Saints conservation area, with 20 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 2DQ
Application type
Listed Building Consent (Alteration)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Northampton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 March 2023
Last date for comments
6 September 2023
Target decision date
11 October 2023
Committee meeting
5 October 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
218 days

Additional information

Documents
93

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: All Saints
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    7 Mar

    Change of Use of existing offices (Class E) to House in Multiple Occupancy for 15No persons (Sui Generis) at…

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongsideWNN/2023/0245
  2. 2023
    7 Mar

    Listed Building Consent Application for Change of Use of existing offices (Class E) to House in Multiple…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consentWNN/2023/0246

Source: West Northamptonshire

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