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North Northamptonshire awarded £1.1m to support development of Sustainable Urban Extensions (10 April 2017)

Date: 10/04/2017
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, North Northamptonshire awarded £1.1m to support development of Sustainable Urban Extensions

North Northamptonshire is among the winners in the government’s award of Large Sites Capacity Funding to help provide new homes.

The government has awarded the four borough and district councils in North Northamptonshire a total of £1.1 million to support the delivery of the Sustainable Urban Extensions (SUEs) at Corby, Kettering, Rushden and Wellingborough.

This is part of an £18m national pot to provide additional capacity within local authorities and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), to tackle large and complex sites.

It is one element of the government’s strategy to significantly increase the pace of house building.

Kettering Borough Council said that the six SUEs identified in the strategic plan (Joint Core Strategy) for North Northamptonshire could together provide around 25,000 new homes – with supporting jobs and infrastructure – over the next 20 years.

Of these, Priors Hall Park and Weldon Park at Corby, Hanwood Park at Kettering and Stanton Cross at Wellingborough are all underway – and Glenvale Park at Wellingborough is about to start.

Planning applications for the SUEs at West Corby and at Rushden East in East Northamptonshire are expected later in 2017.

Kettering Borough Council said that the North Northamptonshire Councils had a long history of working together through Joint Planning and Delivery Units – and had made a joint bid for funding from the Large Sites Capacity Fund.

The bid sought resources for additional planning officers, highways officers and specialist consultants to co-ordinate growth and to deal with planning applications.

Funding was also sought for technical work, to ensure that infrastructure requirements were assessed and met early in the development of the SUEs.

The government’s funding announcement has been welcomed by Councillor Russell Roberts, who chairs the North Northamptonshire Joint Delivery Committee established to oversee progress on the SUEs:

“This funding will allow the partner councils to strengthen their planning teams – and to buy-in additional expertise to speed up the delivery of new homes and ensure that development is of the highest possible quality,” said Cllr Roberts.

“We are one of the fastest growing areas in the country – and will need ongoing support from the government and its agencies while the SUEs are built out.

“This latest funding announcement shows that, as well as providing much needed local homes, jobs and infrastructure, the SUEs are important to the national growth agenda.”


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