Northants village plan thrown out

A plan to develop new homes in a village in rural Northamptonshire has been turned down by councillors after protests by locals opposed to the plan.

Developer Charles Church had been hoping to build 970 homes at the north end of the village of Weldon, near Corby, reports the Northampton Evening Telegraph.

Corby Council's decision to refuse the plan delighted the 20 or so villagers who turned up to the meeting but leaves the developer frustrated in its attempts to build homes on the site for the second time.

Those hoping to get on the housing ladder in one of the 16,800 new homes that are required to be built within the authority by 2021 may also be disappointed and could consider the alternative option of self build.

Elsewhere in the east Midlands, another protest against the building of new homes saw opponents of the proposed 15,000-home Co-op eco village at Stoughton in Leicestershire demonstrating outside the Co-Op store in Oadby, the BBC reported last week.


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