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Towcester Vale Phase 1 London Road Towcester

2025/4279/CONDConditions DischargePending Decision
Discharge / amendments

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 12 (Surface Water) of Planning Permission S/2007/0374/OUTWNS (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).

Received
16 October 2025
Target decision date
11 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Deanshanger and Paulerspury Ward
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.1 Dec
  4. Target11 Dec
  5. Decided
10 weeks typical decision time in West Northamptonshire97% of conditions applications approved

This is an application to discharge conditions at Towcester Vale Phase 1 London Road Towcester. West Northamptonshire has handled 2,332 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 63 days. It was submitted on 16 October 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Towcester conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 113 applications across Deanshanger and Paulerspury Ward.

Application Details

Reference
2025/4279/COND
Address
Towcester Vale Phase 1 London Road Towcester
Local Authority
West Northamptonshire
Application Type
Conditions Discharge
Scale / Size
Large
Number of Dwellings
2750
Decision Status
Undecided
Current Status
4 - Consultations Despatched (1-10)
Ward
Deanshanger and Paulerspury Ward
Parish
Paulerspury

Applicant & Agent

Applicant Address
Miss Lucy Walden 3 Waterside Way Northampton NN4 7XD

Planning Application Dates

Date Received
16 October 2025
Target Decision Date
11 December 2025
Date Validated
16 October 2025
Date Submitted
16 October 2025
Last Date for Comments
1 December 2025

Planning Decision

Decided By
Delegated
Statutory Period
56 days

Publicity

Appeal

Additional Information

Documents
6
Coordinates
52.132755, -0.989481
Enriching application data
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: West Northamptonshire

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Planning constraints

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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© 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 2026-10-09. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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

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

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