Controversial plans for 100 new homes set to be approved
Plans to build more than 100 new homes on a piece of land next to one of Northampton's busiest roundabouts look set to be approved.
Housing association officers have been working on a scheme to build a mixture of 111 flats and houses on land at the end of Booth Rise in Boothville for the past six years.
At a meeting next week, members of the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC) are expected to approve the controversial plans.
This comes despite concerns raised by Northampton Borough Council's planning committee, individual councillors and nearby residents about potential noise, pollution and traffic problems caused by the development, and about the loss of green space.
A report prepared for the meeting reads: "The proposed application would make an important contribution to the delivery of much-needed affordable housing where there is an identified significant shortfall.
"The associated impacts the development would create can be adequately mitigated against through the use of appropriate planning conditions and Section 106 agreement and therefore the development would not have any significant visual, transport, flood risk or other impact that would warrant the refusal of planning permission."
Although the plans are recommended for approval at the WNDC's meeting on Tuesday, the granting of the permission is expected to be delegated to officers subject to the signing of a Section 106 agreement.
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