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2025/3738/MAF - Full Planning Permission (Major) Approved

Proposal

Construction of a storage and distribution building (B8 use), including ancillary office space, together with ancillary buildings with associated access, parking, service and yard areas, drainage, landscaping and associated infrastructure at Plot 6, Northampton Gateway SRFI, Northampton. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 22 Oct 2026, 11:52

Application progress

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Received

13 Aug 2025

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Validated

14 Aug 2025

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Approved

17 Apr 2026

Approved on 17 Apr 2026 · Committee · Last checked 22 Oct 2026

Documents 75

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Document · 20 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Committee Report Document · 17 Apr 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 11

Plans & drawings 37

Application forms 2

PDF CIL Form 1 Additional Information Document · 13 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF Application Form (PUBLIC) Document · 13 Aug 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 14

Associated applications 2

Full17 Apr 20262025/3738/MAFThis application
Construction of a storage and distribution building (B8 use), including ancillary office space, together with ancillary…
- ConditionsDischarge of Condtion 3 (Phase Specific CEMP) and 5 (Fire Hydrants)19 Feb 20262026/0799/COND

Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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) agrees.

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.

Public footpath about 21 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.

National infrastructure project about 671 m away: Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange

The site is about 671 m from the project boundary. Rail freight interchange, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 3.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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: Full Planning Permission (Major)
Received: 13 Aug 2025
Validated: 14 Aug 2025
Ward: Hackleton and Roade Ward
Parish: Milton Malsor
Target decision: 20 Apr 2026
Decision: Approval
Decision date: 17 Apr 2026
Decision level: Committee
Applicant: Show
Agent: Oxalis Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 246 days from validation, 147 days slower than West Northamptonshire's median of 99 for full applications. Approved, as 90% of full applications here are.

This one246d

Council99d

UK56d

11%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

6%go to committee

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

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 15 Dec 2025
Committee: 16 Dec 2025

West Northamptonshire

Planning Authority Score

1.7/10

Poor

#280 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

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

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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