Accommodation Maltsters Arms 20 West Street Weedon Data via plota.co.uk

2025/1823/LBC - Listed Building Consent (Alteration) Approved

Proposal

Listed building consent for change of use of public house to Class C3 dwellinghouse with associated internal and external alterations, including repairs to the ground floor central pier. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Apr 2025
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Validated
20 May 2025
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Approved
24 Nov 2025

Approved on 24 Nov 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 23 Oct 2026

Documents 35

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 8

9 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: 4 and 6, Church Street, Grade II, about 28 m from the postcode pin · 9 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Show all 9 with distances
Historic England ↗
Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
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 2; Nature improvement area: Nene Valley; National infrastructure project about 266 m away: The Grand Union Canal Transfer, at pre-application; Inside the Weedon Bec built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 24 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.

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Important details

Application type
Listed Building Consent (Alteration)
Received
17 Apr 2025
Validated
20 May 2025
Ward
Woodford & Weedon Ward
Parish
Weedon Bec
Target decision
30 Nov 2025
Decision
Approval
Decision date
24 Nov 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Hammond Town Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 188 days from validation, 73 days slower than West Northamptonshire's median of 115 for listed building works. Approved, as 85% of listed building works here are.

9%decided within 8 weeks
85%approved
214decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building works decided by West Northamptonshire in the last twelve months, from validation. West Northamptonshire decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
19 Nov 2025
West Northamptonshire
Planning Authority Score
1.7/10
Poor
#280 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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%).

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
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