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124 Watling Street East, Towcester, NN12 6BT

Granted West Northamptonshire 2025/4366/FULL Full Planning Permission

Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.

Proposal

Change of Use of Ground Floor Optician Shop to Takeaway, Retrospective works carried out including front access door moved in front elevation, kitchen with extraction unit installed, counter with studwall partition behind and internal decoration

As published by the council, reference 2025/4366/FULL

Application record

Reference
2025/4366/FULL
Type
Full Planning Permission
Status
10 - Approved
Decision
Granted As published: Approval
Received
3 Oct 2025
Validated
3 Oct 2025
Decided
27 Jan 2026
Ward
Towcester Ward
Parish
Towcester
Decision by
Delegated
Postcode
NN12 6BT

Site history

Applications at this address on the West Northamptonshire register

This site has had 6 applications since 2025: 5 approved, 0 refused.

  • 2026/0894/COND Granted

    124 Watling Street East Towcester NN12 6BT

    Discharge of Condition 3 (Noise & Odour Assessment) of Planning Permission 2025/4366/FULL (Change of Use of Ground Floor Optician Shop to Takeaway, retrospective works carried out including front access door moved in front elevation, kitchen with extraction unit installed, counter with studwall partition behind and internal decoration)

    Decided 9 Jun 2026 Conditions
  • 2025/4434/LBC Granted

    124 Watling Street East Towcester NN12 6BT

    Listed Building Consent for the installation of non-illuminated hanging sign.

    Decided 5 Feb 2026 Heritage and listed buildings
  • 2025/4367/LBC Granted

    124 Watling Street East, Towcester, NN12 6BT

    Listed Building Consent for the Change of Use of Ground Floor Optician Shop to Takeaway, Retrospective works carried out including front access door moved in front elevation, kitchen with extraction unit installed, counter with studwall partition behind and internal decoration

    Decided 27 Jan 2026 Heritage and listed buildings
  • 2025/3749/NMA Withdrawn

    124 Watling Street East Towcester NN12 6BT

    Non material amendment to make alteration to ground floor, amend the position of door in the shopfront and the siting of the rear extraction flue system to WNS/2022/0181/FUL (Change of Use from Opticians Shop on the Ground Floor with First Floor storage to Restaurant and Takeaway for the Ground Floor with storage on the First Floor with installation of extraction flue to side)

    Decided 1 Oct 2025 Amendments
  • 2025/4143/ADV Granted

    124 Watling Street East Towcester NN12 6BT

    Advertisement consent for installation of non-illuminated hanging sign.

    Decided 5 Feb 2026 Advertising

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 3 Oct 2025

    Received by West Northamptonshire

  2. 27 Jan 2026

    Decision issued: Approval

  3. 10 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Cases linked to this one on the register

1 later application on the register refers to this one:

  • 2026/0894/COND Granted

    124 Watling Street East Towcester NN12 6BT

    Discharge of Condition 3 (Noise & Odour Assessment) of Planning Permission 2025/4366/FULL (Change of Use of Ground Floor Optician Shop to Takeaway, retrospective works carried out including front access door moved in front elevation, kitchen with extraction unit installed, counter with studwall partition behind and internal decoration)

    Decided 9 Jun 2026 Conditions

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

29 documents on file for this application

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What this grant of permission means

West Northamptonshire granted permission on 27 January 2026, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

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    2026/0902/ADV Submitted 17 Feb 2026 50 yards away

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  • 134A Watling Street East Towcester NN12 6BT

    2026/0901/FULL Submitted 17 Feb 2026 50 yards away

    Installation of external extractor, repaint external fascia and install new shopfront signage and internal works.

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  • 134A Watling Street East Towcester NN12 6BT

    2026/0818/LBC Submitted 17 Feb 2026 50 yards away

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    Granted Conditions Loft or dormer Windows or glazing 6 docs

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