Wellingborough East, Northamptonshire
Development brief for an urban extension based on landscape character

Wellingborough East is a 361 hectare ‘sustainable urban extension’ planned for a greenfield site east of the mainline railway. Over the next decade the site is expected to deliver 3,000 new homes and 110 hectares of employment land. A development framework based on landscape character has been worked up, which was adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance in November 2004.

The development framework is built up from a series of layers of context including landscape, ecology and wildlife, microclimate and drainage. It identifies features for incorporation including areas of mature planting and conservation value, as well as existing hedgerows and drainage ditches. It also seeks to avoid development in the River Ise floodplain and to explore connections with the proposed Nene Valley regional park, located to the south east of the site.

Sources:
1. Wellingborough Borough Council (2004) Wellingborough East, http://www.wellingborough.gov.uk/business/weast.asp
2. Matrix Partnership (2003) Wellingborough East: Development framework, Supplementary Planning Guidance