Plans for hundreds of homes on schools sites to be reconsidered
Plans to build hundreds of houses on nine former school sites in Northampton are due to be reconsidered following public pressure.
The West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC), which was created by the Government to push forward the expansion of Northampton, Daventry and Towcester, backed plans to build on the school sites last year.
But following lengthy discussions about how the sites will actually be developed and a growing increase in public concern over the plans, the group will look at the schemes again during a meeting next week.
The sites which will be looked into are the former Abington Vale School site, the former Emmanuel Church Middle School site, the former Blackthorn Middle School site, land at Ryelands School, the former Ecton Brook Middle School site, the former St Mary's Middle School site, the former Goldings school site, the former Cherry Orchard School site and the former Millway Primary site.
Plans to redevelop four of the sites, Cherry Orchard, Ecton Brook Middle School, Blackthorn Middle School and Millway Primary, were all backed during one meeting of the WNDC in February 2007.
But documents which will be seen by the WNDC's planning committee for Northampton next week, suggest the length of time which has passed since the plans were backed means they should be reconsidered.
The report on the Millway site said: "The application, together with a number of other proposals on former school sites in the town, is being returned to committee not as a result of any proposed changes to the scheme since it was last considered, but rather as a result of the elapsed time to allow the committee to consider the matter in light of any changes in circumstances and to review the position."
Concerns have also been raised about the loss of sports pitches if all the development goes ahead and the WNDC has said the public interest is "not well served by the indefinite continuation of negotiations" on the scheme.
The WNDC's planning committee will discuss the future of the school sites due for development on September 30.
Email to a friend
Print this page- BREAKING NEWS: Tributes paid to Niamh Curry as brave five-year-old loses battle against cancer
- BREAKING NEWS: Pensioner dies after collision at Northampton shopping centre
- Man tied to tree and beaten on Northampton Racecourse
- BREAKING NEWS: Seven-year-old boy dies following house fire in Northamptonshire
- Northampton binmen at ‘breaking point’
- Northampton binmen at ‘breaking point’
- Saints’ stadium plans get support as long as traffic issues solved
- Eastern European pupils helping school standards across Northampton
- Northampton Town: Boothroyd ‘It’s all about stability’
- Northampton benefits advice agency reports surge in people losing entitlements
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Northampton
Thursday 24 May 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 12 C to 25 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 22 C
Wind Speed: 22 mph
Wind direction: East
