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Land East of Wootton Fields

2025/4229/SCOPScoping OpinionDecided
Outline / PiP

Decided on 20 May 2026

Council decision: EIA Scoping Opinion GivenDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion for 1,700 dwellings, comprising a mix of housing types and tenures, including affordable housing. Residential areas will be developed at a range of densities, with higher density located close to the proposed local centre and primary movement routes.

Received
20 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hackleton and Roade Ward
  1. Received20 Oct
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.2 Dec
  4. Target24 Nov
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 212 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land East of Wootton Fields. West Northamptonshire has handled 1,500 applications of this type. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Hackleton and Roade Ward.

84% of outline applications at West Northamptonshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Scoping Opinion
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
1700
Parish
Hackleton

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2025
Last date for comments
2 December 2025
Target decision date
24 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Oli Haydon 101 Victoria Street Bristol BS1 6PU

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: West Northamptonshire

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