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Background Paper on Strategic Housing and Employment Sites North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy 2011 – 2031 Pre-Submission Stage Background Paper on Strategic Housing and Employment Sites January 2015 Contents 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Background ........................................................................................................................................... 1 3. The Size Threshold for Strategic Sites ................................................................................................... 2 4. The Planning Policy Context .................................................................................................................. 2 5. Methodology ......................................................................................................................................... 4 The Initial Site Sieve .............................................................................................................................. 6 Potential strategic sites – the ‘short list’ .............................................................................................. 8 6. Consultation on the Background Paper .............................................................................................. 18 7. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 20 Appendix 1: Map illustrating the location of the ‘long list’ of strategic sites ..................................... 21 Appendix 2 - Long list of potential sites .............................................................................................. 22 Appendix 3 – Map illustrating the location of strategic sites on the short list ................................... 31 Appendix 4 - Site Assessment Template ............................................................................................ 32 Appendix 5 - Site Assessment Matrix of Uncommitted Sites included in the Short List .................... 37 Appendix 6 - Detailed Site Assessments of Potential Strategic Housing and Employment Sites ....... 41 Sites within or adjacent to Corby ................................................................................................................ 41 Site 7: West Corby ............................................................................................................................... 41 Site 8: Brookfield Plantation, Gretton Brook Rd, Corby ...................................................................... 47 Site 9: Corby South East ...................................................................................................................... 56 Site 12: Extension to Weldon Park ..................................................................................................... 61 Site 14: Land at Cockerell Rd, Corby .................................................................................................. 65 Site 19: Rockingham Enterprise Area, Corby ...................................................................................... 68 Site 20: Land at Geddington Rd, Corby ............................................................................................... 72 Site 21: South West Corby .................................................................................................................. 75 Site 25: Land south of Great Oakley ................................................................................................... 80 Site 26: Land at New Grange Farm, Stanion ....................................................................................... 83 Site 91: Land to the West of Uppingham Road, Corby ....................................................................... 86 Site 92: Land North of the Western Urban Extension ........................................................................ 89 Sites within East Northamptonshire ........................................................................................................... 95 Site 35: Duchy Farm, Chelveston Rd, Higham Ferrers ........................................................................ 95 Site 39: Land West of Crow Hill/ north of A6 (Irthlingborough North) ............................................... 98 Site 58: Raunds West ........................................................................................................................ 101 Site 68: Thrapston - Land to the north east (east of A605) .............................................................. 104 Site 93: Land between Kettering Road and A14, Islip (Thrapston West) .......................................... 107 Site 94: Middle End, Brick Kiln Road, Raunds (Raunds North, Phase 3) ........................................... 110 Site 98: Nene Valley Farm, Northampton Road, Rushden ................................................................ 115 Sites within Kettering ................................................................................................................................ 122 Site 4: Land to South-East of Burton Latimer ................................................................................... 122 Site 5: Burton Latimer North ............................................................................................................. 125 Site 6: South West Burton Latimer ................................................................................................... 128 Site 83: Land East of Higham Road, Burton Latimer ......................................................................... 131 Site 33: Desborough West ................................................................................................................ 133 Site 34: Land at Humfrey’s Lodge, Desborough ................................................................................ 138 Site 84: Stoke Rd (north-east of Harborough Rd), Desborough ....................................................... 141 Site 42: Kettering North (Weekley Wood development area) ......................................................... 144 Site 43: Land at Kettering South ....................................................................................................... 150 Site 50: Kettering West Sustainable Urban Extension ...................................................................... 155 Site 45: Kettering Hub ....................................................................................................................... 158 Site 48: North Kettering A ................................................................................................................. 161 Site 49: North Kettering B ................................................................................................................. 164 Site 59: Rothwell North ..................................................................................................................... 167 Site 60: South east of A14Junction 3, Rothwell ................................................................................ 171 Site 86 Land adjacent to the cemetery (south of A14) Rothwell ...................................................... 174 Site 95: East Kettering (additional land) ........................................................................................... 176 Sites within Wellingborough ..................................................................................................................... 179 Site 70: Prospect Park (Wilby Grange) Wellingborough ................................................................... 179 Site 71: Stanton Cross (additional land to the east) ......................................................................... 187 Site 77: Land west of Wellingborough (between Wilby and Park Farm industrial estate) ............... 194 Site 96: Land at North East Wellingborough (North of Finedon Road Industrial Estate up to Furnace Lane) .................................................................................................................................................. 198 Site 97: Land at North East Wellingborough (North of Finedon Road Industrial Estate) ................. 202 Appendix 7: Representations on sites not included on the short list. ...................................................... 206 Site 23, Land adj Easton on the Hill/Collyweston ............................................................................. 206 Site 65, Minton Distribution Centre, Sywell...................................................................................... 206 Site 99 Roundhill Park, Northampton ............................................................................................... 207 Appendix 8: Previous assessment work .................................................................................................... 209 1. Introduction 1.1 The Pre-submission North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy (the Plan) allocates land of a strategic scale for housing and employment purposes in order to increase the certainty of the delivery of the strategic objectives of the Plan over the period from 2011 to 2031. Employment sites for the purpose of this study are those which will accommodate uses falling within the planning ‘B’ use classes i.e. offices (B1), manufacturing (B2) and warehousing and distribution (B8). This Background Paper on Strategic Housing and Employment Sites (the
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