Bookies bids for licence for vacant Kettering High Street unit

Betfred, which already has branches in Montagu Street and Silver Street in the town, has applied to North Northants Council for the licence for 68-70 High Street, most recently occupied by women’s clothing chain Bonmarche.

Plans to turn the site into a 24/7 bingo lounge had previously been announced, but nothing has come to fruition.

The application to the council reads: “Notice is hereby given that: Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited t/a Betfred of the following address: Spectrum, 56-58 Benson Road, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7PQ is/are applying for a Betting premises licence under section 159 of the Gambling Act 2005. The application relates to the following premises: Betfred, 68-70 High Street, Kettering, NN16 8SY.”

People have until December 24 to comment on the application.

Other recent planning applications before the council include:

25/01328/HFUL: Single storey rear extension at The Hawthorns, Park Hill, Braybrooke 25/01331/VAR: Variation of Condition (s73): Variation of Conditions of NK/2022/0613 at land rear of Millbuck Industrial Estate, Harborough Road, Desborough 25/01069/HFUL: Single storey side extension and alterations to external fenestration at 1A Finedon Hall, Mackworth Drive, Finedon 25/01481/FUL: Garage conversion to carport. New hardwood external door and cladding to internal walls of garage. Alter garage window and door. Alter dropped kerb and pavement to extend across existing driveway access. Repaint wooden driveway gates and pedestrian gate. Remove gravel material from driveway and courtyard and replace with 20mm gravel, new flower beds at 5 Church Street, Easton on the Hill 25/01515/LBC: Replacement of 2 no windows to east elevation at 13 Main Street, Upper Benefield 25/01073/FUL: Replacement and renovation to external windows and doors and relocation of 1 no. window and 1 no. door to rear elevation at 35 Headlands, Kettering 25/00939/FUL: Reroofing the Market House in a new lead roof, external masonry repairs, removal of external window guards, alterations to internal rainwater downpipes, addition of a new roof access ladder at Market House, Market Hill, Rothwell 25/01682/OUT: Outline planning permission for the erection of residential dwellings (Use Class C3) including affordable housing, public open space, means of vehicular access into the site (not internal roads) and associated infrastructure, with all other matters (relating to appearance, landscaping, scale and layout) reserved at land between Station Road and Northampton Road, Station Road, Earls Barton 25/01296/FUL: Proposed retaining wall and railings to create additional terrace seating area and improved access at 29 The Square, Earls Barton 25/01671/FUL: Conversion of existing store to create an additional 2 no. one -bedroom flats, splitting of 1 no. retail unit to create 2 no. retail units, internal alterations to ground floor flats 1 and 2 and insertion of additional windows and doors at 43 High Street, Rushden

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