West Northamptonshire Committees

Strategic Planning Committee

Planning

Recent meetings

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21 Apr 2026

2:00 pm

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday, 21 April 2026 - 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council was scheduled to consider three major planning applications. These included an outline application for up to 150 dwellings near Brackley, a full application for a replacement distribution war...

17 Mar 2026

3:00 pm

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday, 17 March 2026 - 3.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council met on Tuesday 17 March 2026, approving a reserved matters application for 295 new homes at Dallington Grange, Mill Lane, Kingsthorpe, Northampton. The committee also considered and approved ...

25 Feb 2026

2:00 pm

Strategic Planning Committee - Wednesday 25th February 2026 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council met on Wednesday 25 February 2026 to discuss a major planning application for commercial development at Sixfields Stadium. The committee approved the recommendations for the application, subj...

17 Feb 2026

1:00 pm

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 17th February 2026 1.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council met on Tuesday 17 February 2026, approving five planning applications. These included a renewable biomethane gas generation facility, a reconfiguration of the Billing Aquadrome site, remediat...

22 Jan 2026

3:00 pm

Strategic Planning Committee - Thursday 22nd January 2026 3.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council met on Thursday 22 January 2026 and approved a hybrid planning application for a significant housing development on land north-west of Upper High Street, Harpole. The decision included a comp...

16 Dec 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 16th December 2025 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee is scheduled to meet on 16 December 2025 to discuss planning applications, including developments at a car park at [Northampton Railway Station](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Car+Park+Railway+Station+No...

18 Nov 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 18th November 2025 3.00 pm

The West Northamptonshire Council's Strategic Planning Committee convened on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, to discuss and decide on two major planning applications in Harpole. Both applications, concerning land at Norwood Farm and land north west of Upper High...

About

The Strategic Planning Committee is responsible for functions relating to town and country planning and development control as specified in Part A of Schedule 1 of the Local Authorities Functions and Responsibilities (England) Regulations 2000 including in relation to strategic applications meeting the thresholds set out below:

-       Large-scale major developments defined (by the Government’s planning application statistical returns) as those of 200 houses or more

-       Commercial developments of 10,000 square metres or more

-       Strategically important developments (as identified by the Assistant Director – Planning and Development in consultation with the Chair of the Committee and the Cabinet Member for Planning). The Strategic Planning Committee is also responsible for:

-       Any application where the Assistant Director – Planning and Development considers it inappropriate to exercise delegated powers having regard to the public representations received and consultee responses.

-       There shall be no referral down of applications from Strategic Planning Committee to the Non-Strategic Planning Committee

Members

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Scott Packer · Chair
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Nigel Berrill · Vice-Chair
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Anthony Lock · Member
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Bob Purser · Member
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Charles Manners · Member
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David Gaskell · Member
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David Smith · Member
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Phil Bignell · Member
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Richard Pipes · Member
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Ronald Firman · Member
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Rosie Humphreys · Member
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Sally Keeble · Member
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Trefor Hughes · Member
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Adrian Cartwright · Substitute
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Jonathan Harris · Substitute
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Nicholas Humphries · Substitute
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Rebecca Breese · Substitute
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Stephen Clarke · Substitute