Nicky Scaife

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council approved recommendations on 16/12/2025. The decision was to grant permission for the redevelopment of land at Northampton Station, subject to additional conditions and the completion of a S106 Agreement. This includes financial contributions for healthcare, education, employment and skills training, library provisions, affordable housing, open space, and landscape maintenance.

...approval was granted, subject to conditions, for the reserved matters (appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale) for 233 residential dwellings, associated infrastructure, and landscaping at Phase 2A of the Norwood Farm development.

... to grant permission, subject to conditions and a Section 106 legal agreement, for a hybrid planning application (reference 2024/0672/MAO) to build 100 dwellings with full planning permission and 350 dwellings with outline planning permission on land north west of Upper High Street, Harpole, including associated infrastructure and open space.

The Strategic Planning Committee of West Northamptonshire Council refused the outline application for a mixed-use employment site at Podium Business Park, Shacks Barn Farm, A43, Oxford Road, Silverstone, NN12 8TB on 21 October 2025. Reasons for refusal are to be set out in the minutes.

The Strategic Planning Committee approved the demolition of an existing building and the erection of two employment units at 1 Stone Circle Road, Northampton, on 21 October 2025. The decision was approved subject to conditions. These conditions include a post-commissioning noise survey, full site characterisation and risk assessment, a remediation scheme, procedures for unexpected contamination, a detailed site-specific Construction Environmental Management Plan, and a detailed lighting scheme.