A £1.7 MILLION community centre could soon be built in the village of Upton, following a delay of more than three years.
Work was due to start on the environmentally-friendly centre in May 2004, but problems with funding prevented work from beginning.
Members of Northampton Borough Council's cabinet will meet on Monday and thrash out plans to work with the Governmen
t to get the centre built.
The member for the area, Councillor Paul Varnsverry (Lib Dem, West Hunsbury), said: "Building the centre was always part of the wider plans at Upton and it should be a very useful addition to the playing fields and other facilities in the village."
The centre is designed to be environmentally-friendly.
Among the features are a 15m tall wind turbine which will provide 90 per cent of the centre's electricity.
When plans for the turbine were first revealed in 2004, some residents were concerned about the appearance of the large turbine.
But Councillor Varnsverry, who was elected to the council in May this year, said nobody had yet approached him with concerns.
He said: "Nobody has expressed a view to me either way about it."
The Upton village was designed with personal input from Prince Charles.
The whole development has been designed to be one of the most environmentally-friendly in the country. A number of houses in the village have been designed with built-in solar panels, turf-covered roofs and devices to catch and re-use rain water.
