West Lodge Farm Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB Data via plota.co.uk

2026/2816/NMA - Non Material Amendment to a Planning Permission Approved
Admin / proceduralCommercial premises

Proposal

Non material amendment to amend the approved colours to the walls & roof of the building to planning permission 2025/1959/FULL (Conversion of an existing agricultural building to a farm shop and café (Use Class E) and a commercial unit (Use Class E(g)(iii), B2 and/or B8); a new access from Courteenhall Road, car parking, cycle and bin store, landscaping and associated works) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
10 Jul 2026
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Approved
28 Aug 2026

Approved on 28 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Notice Document · 28 Aug 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Plan - Location Plan Document · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form (PUBLIC) Document · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗

Other documents 3

PDF Officers Report Document · 28 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Acknowledgement Document · 30 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Superseded Document · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 3

Site constraints 6

Agricultural land, grade 5
Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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.
SSSI about 9 m away: Roade Cutting SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Sssi
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 6
An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 1409 m away: Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange; Priority habitat about 6 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 14 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

Council
West Northamptonshire
Application type
Non Material Amendment to a Planning Permission
Postcode
NN7 2QB
Received
10 Jul 2026
Validated
10 Jul 2026
Ward
Hackleton and Roade Ward
Parish
Courteenhall
Target decision
7 Aug 2026
Decision
Approval
Decision date
28 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Sursham Tompkins & Partners

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
6 Jul 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Conversion of an existing agricultural building to a farm shop and café (Use Class E) and…
2025/1959/FULL
2024 Approved
Conversion of an existing agricultural building to a farm shop and café (Use Class E) and…
2024/1178/MAF
2017 Approved
Change-of-Use of two redundant agricultural buildings to B1(c) Light Industrial and/or B8…
S/2017/2426/FUL
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023 Approved
Blisworth Road Courteenhall Northampton NN7 2QB
Determination as to whether prior approval is required for the installation of electronic…
WNS/2023/0122/TEL
2022 Approved
West Lodge Farm Blisworth Road Courteenhall
Conversion of two agricultural barns to commercial units (Use Class E(g)(iii), B2, B8), r…
WNS/2022/0118/FUL
2022 Approved
Blisworth Road Courteenhall Northampton NN7 2QB (Cell 10684934/TEF368)
Notification of the installation of electronic communications for the installation of rep…
WNS/2022/0139/TLN
2021 Approved
Barn at West Lodge Farm West Lodge Farm Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Determination as to whether prior approval is required (under Class R of Part 3 of the ab…
WNS/2021/1212/PA
2020 Approved
Courteenhall Farms West Lodge Farm Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Condition 4 [Surface Water Drainage Scheme] Application for approval of details submityte…
S/2020/0175/COND
2020 Approved
Courteenhall Farms West Lodge Farm Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Condition 9 [Landscaping Scheme] Application for approval of details submitted pursuant t…
S/2020/0178/COND
2020 Approved
Courteenhall Farms West Lodge Farm Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Condition 5 [Access Road Details] Application for approval of details submitted pursuant…
S/2020/0176/COND
2020 Approved
Courteenhall Farms West Lodge Farm Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Condition 6 [Road Surfacing Details] Application for approval of details submitted pursua…
S/2020/0177/COND
2018 Approved
O2 Uk Ltd Telecommunications Mast 368 Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Notification of installation of electronic communications to install one 0.3m diameter di…
S/2018/2418/TLN
2018 Approved
O2 Uk Ltd Telecommunications Mast 368 Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Notification of installation of electronic communications for the installation of one 600…
S/2018/1826/TLN
2017 Approved
West Lodge Farmhouse Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Development comprising of change of use from C3 (A…
S/2017/0998/LDP
2016 Approved
Telecommunications Mast Blisworth Road Courteenhall NN7 2QB
Transmission dish , backup generator with fencing , additional cabinets, swap antennae an…
S/2016/1219/TLN
West Northamptonshire
Planning Authority Score
1.7/10
Poor
#280 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

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