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2026/4279/NMA - Non Material Amendment to a Planning Permission 3 - Case Officer Allocated (1-10)

Proposal

Non-material amendment for alteration of wording to conditions 3 and 29 of planning permission (Outline application for the creation of a new mixed use neighbourhood at Towcester comprising: 2750 homes; employment land to support B1, B2 and B8 uses; a main Local Centre (food store, retail units, public house/restaurant, doctors surgery/medical centre, nursery/crèche and community hall); a support local centre (corner shops, takeaways); mixed use commercial area to accommodate Class C1 Hotel with conference and leisure facilities; two new primary schools; areas of public open space and strategic landscaping, incorporating new formal Sports Pitches, and combined community facility and Pavilion and parking and new allotments; the provision of the Towcester Relief Road connecting the A5T to the A43T; surface water/flood management works and necessary related engineering works for drainage and services) to increase the maximum floorspace for a Nursery/Crèche (Use Class D1) from 550m² to 650m². Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 17:21

Application progress

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Received

19 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 16 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 16 Nov 2026.

Documents 7

Plans & drawings 3

PDF Plan - Floor Document · 19 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plan - Location Plan Document · 19 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plan - Site Plan Document · 19 Oct 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form (PUBLIC) Document · 19 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 3

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Priority habitat about 15 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 28 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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