Top Lock Cottage Watling Street Long Buckby NN6 7PW Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1879/TCA - Works to Trees (Conservation Area) Withdrawn
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Maple Tree full removal - due to closeness to/and impact on property and vehicles Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
5 May 2026
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Withdrawn
15 Jun 2026

Withdrawn on 15 Jun 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 10 Sept 2026

Documents 7

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form (PUBLIC) Document · 5 May 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Response - Consultees Document · 20 May 2026 View ↗

Other documents 5

PDF Withdrawal Notification Document · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Acknowledgement Document · 8 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Photos Document · 5 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Photos Document · 5 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Photos Document · 5 May 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 8

Public footpath about 4 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Grand Union and Oxford Canals conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Nature improvement area: Nene Valley; National infrastructure project: The Grand Union Canal Transfer, at pre-application; Priority habitat about 23 m away: Traditional orchard.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £490,000 in September 2016. Detached house, freehold.

29 September 2016£490,000
28 February 2011£350,500

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
West Northamptonshire
Application type
Works to Trees (Conservation Area)
Postcode
NN6 7PW
Received
5 May 2026
Validated
5 May 2026
Ward
Long Buckby
Parish
Norton
Target decision
16 Jun 2026
Decision
Withdrawn
Decision date
15 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
1 Jun 2026

Historical activity at this location

12 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Approved
Removal of 1 x Lime tree
2024/3837/TCA
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2023 Approved
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2023 Approved
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2020 Approved
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DA/2020/0298
2020 Approved
Little Acres Old Watling Street Long Buckby Wharf Northamptonshire NN6 7PW
Non material amendment to application DA/2019/0727 - Changes to layout and glazing to ann…
NMA/2020/0040
2019 Approved
Little Acres Old Watling Street Long Buckby Wharf Northamptonshire NN6 7PW
Demolition of existing single storey side extension. Construction of two storey side/rear…
DA/2019/0727
2016 Approved
Top Lock Cottage, Watling Street, Long Buckby (Norton Parish), Northamptonshire, NN6 7PW
Demolition of existing garage and construction of single storey side extension and rear e…
DA/2016/1166
2016 Approved
Top Lock Cottage, Watling Street, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, NN6 7PW
Work to tree within a Conservation area.
DA/2016/1029
West Northamptonshire
Planning Authority Score
1.7/10
Poor
#280 of 296 councils
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West Northamptonshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #295 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 79% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

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West Northamptonshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
90%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #123 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #144 of 296
18%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #295 of 296
79%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #295 of 296
81%
Minor dwellings approved
170 decided (1-9 homes)
83%
Major dwellings approved
24 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
207 decided
1,832
Total decisions
179 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

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