West Northamptonshire Committees

Strategic Planning Committee

Planning

Recent meetings

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21 Oct 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 21st October 2025 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee met on Tuesday to discuss four planning applications. Councillors approved reserved matters for industrial buildings at [Towcester Park](https://www.google.com/maps/search/Towcester+Park+West+Northants+Council/) and approved...

30 Sep 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 30th September 2025 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee convened to discuss and approve recommendations for a major residential development and a large solar farm project. Councillors approved the reserved matters for land at [Towcester Vale](https://www.google.com/maps/search/To...

23 Sep 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 23rd September 2025 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council met to discuss several planning applications, approving a primary school and a distribution warehouse, and deferring a decision on a housing development. The committee approved the constructi...

19 Aug 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 19th August 2025 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee convened to discuss several planning applications, approving a storage and distribution building at Zone G, DIRFT, Crick, and an industrial and commercial development at Woolgrowers Field, Land North of Greens Norton Road, T...

27 May 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 27th May 2025 2.00 pm

The Strategic Planning Committee were scheduled to meet to discuss three planning applications, including a solar farm and a residential development. The [agenda](https://westnorthants.moderngov.co.uk/documents/g1467/Agenda%20frontsheet%2027th-May-2025%2014...

22 Apr 2025

Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 22nd April 2025 2.00 pm

The West Northamptonshire Council's Strategic Planning Committee was scheduled to meet on 22 April 2025 to discuss planning applications and other committee business. The meeting was to be held at The Forum in Moat Lane, Towcester. On the agenda was a reser...

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