SOS Charity Fashion Show organisers arrived calm and collected, despite being stuck in a traffic jam on the A14 with only 15minutes to set up before doors opened! We had 9 amazing volunteer models who did a wonderful job. There was a range of fashion brands to suit all pockets at discount prices, fantastic raffle…
On Thursday 26th October the STAUNCH Fund-Raising Committee will be holding its next Fund-Raising event. We are holding a Fashion Show in the Clubroom. Doors open at 7pm for the start of the show at 7.30pm. It will be a fun night with lots of bargains to be had from High Street brands. Refreshments will…
STAUNCH have just published their holding objection to the proposed Wood Lodge Solar Farm. Much of the site is located within Titchmarsh Parish – running parallel to the A14. STAUNCH fully support renewable energy. However, it is important that all such schemes should be considered on the basis that they appropriate and proportionate for the…
STAUNCH are holding another site walk of the proposed massive warehouse developments on the edge of Titchmarsh. The sheer scale of the twin sites is vast – covering 355 acres of perfectly good arable fields. The best way to appreciate the size of the farm land we will lose is to visit the sites with…
Villagers Kevin Shapland and Sharon Cole appeared on the BBC on Wednesday to press home the STAUNCH Campaign’s ongoing opposition to the proposed warehouse developments on the edge of Titchmarsh. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-66100710 Sharon Cole, secretary of STAUNCH, said Northamptonshire was becoming “the county of sheds” with the increase in warehousing. “My concerns are that they are…
The STAUNCH Fund-Raising Team are working hard putting together a calendar of events to help raise funds for the expected appeals for both Newlands and IM properties planning applications for warehouses between Titchmarsh and Thrapston. Our next big event is: Titchmarsh Open Gardens Titchmarsh, near Thrapston, NorthamptonshireSunday 18th June 2023 11.00am to 4.00p 10 gardens…
Late last year, Elgin Energy Esco Ltd submitted a planning application to build a solar farm on arable land at Foxholes Farm. The site is approximately one mile east of Titchmarsh along the Roman Road between our village and Clopton. The solar array will occupy 154 acres / 62 hectares of land. STAUNCH would like…
As I am sure you’ll be aware, Titchmarsh is full of some very talented people! This is particularly true when it comes to artists. We have loads of painters, illustrators, photographers and all sorts of other artisans. Later this month you’ll have a chance to view their work in a special Titchmarsh Art Exhibition. The…
Despite a wet start to the day, the Art sale in Titchmarsh church on Sunday 23rd October was a great success and raised over £1,800 for STAUNCH. Local artist Daphne Winsor was delighted to sell 56 or her 75 paintings and generously donated 50% of the proceeds to STAUNCH, to help in their fight against…
Many Titchmarsh residents will have received a booklet and letter from Elgin Energy to inform them that they are seeking to develop a ground mounted Solar PV farm 1 km southeast of the village, just off the Roman Road and behind Foxholes Farm. The proposed project covers approximately 154 acres and will generate sufficient electricity…
Don’t forget the sale of Daphne Winsor’s paintings in the church this Sunday (23rd) from 11am – 4pm. There are over 70 paintings, mainly mounted watercolours although about 20 are framed. The prices range from £10 to £75 for the mounted paintings and £60 to £200 for the framed paintings. Daphne will be donating half…
The Government has launched an unprecedented attack on nature and we urgently need your help to stop it. Today nature urgently needs your help. The Government is threatening to tear up the laws that protect our best wildlife sites, offer up chunks of our countryside for unrestricted development and may scrap vital proposals that could help farmers…
Northamptonshire campaigners staged a protest outside Peterborough Cathedral on the evening of Tuesday 23rd August over the sale of glebe land (land owned by the church) between Thrapston and Titchmarsh. In 2020 the Diocese of Peterborough sold a ten year development option on the land which sits off the A605 adjacent to the Haldens Parkway…
Sponsored Walk this Friday, August 12th at 5:30pm from the Wheatsheaf Titchmarsh to the Montagu Arms in Barnwell and back! (approx. 10 miles) The weather is looking good! It will be a fun thing to do together! Please come along to swell the numbers and raise money to help pay for the legal representation STAUNCH…
After an absence of three years the Thurning Feast made a welcome return to the local calendar on Monday 25th July. The event had been postponed several times due to the Covid outbreak putting the future of Feast in some doubt. So it was with no little excitement that people turned out in large numbers…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE CAMPAIGN GROUP STAUNCH’S FORMAL OBJECTIONS AND REASONS FOR REFUSAL IN RESPECT OF PLANNING APPLICATION NE/22/00698/OUT LAND ADJACENT TO HALDENS PARKWAY, THRAPSTON. THE SITE IS KNOWN LOCALLY AS THE GLEBE LAND (RECTORY FARM) AND IS OFF THE A605 TO THE EAST OF THRAPSTON WITHIN THE PARISH OF TITCHMARSH. This site is not…
The STAUNCH Campaign have posted their official objection to the Castle Manor Farm development project put forward by Newlands Properties earlier this year. The documents are listed below. These will give the community a crucial insight into which particular issues are of the greatest concern. As expected, a planning application for the Glebe Land site…
The Northamptonshire campaign group STAUNCH (Save Titchmarsh, Thrapston and Upper Nene Valley Countryside and Habitat) is delighted to announce that it has now partnered with the Nene Valley Association (NVA) to deliver our campaign against inappropriate, disproportionate, and unsustainable developments in the Upper Nene Valley. At the present time, there are plans under consideration by…
As I am sure you will be aware, IM Properties recently submitted their official hybrid planning application for the Glebe Land site. The project, now called “Thrapston Business Park”, will be devastating – not just for our local community but also for the environment and local wildlife. It has also just got a lot bigger….
Plans submitted for huge business park between Thrapston and Titchmarsh The site is on church-owned land Campaigners in an east Northants village are ready to oppose a planning application that has been submitted to North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) for a 120-acre business park near their homes. Planning permission is being sought for glebe land to…
The super smart STAUNCH Campaign T-shirts have just arrived! You can orders your now for a small donation of at least £6 by using the button below. If you’re coming on Sunday’s Boundary Walk then it would be a shame not to ware one – especially for any publicity shots! Grab yours now! Speaking of…
For hundreds of years villages, the residents of our local area, including Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and the Fens have been Beating the Bounds to map out the Parish Boundary limits of a village. This is a tradition that has mostly died out, but was re-instated in Titchmarsh 30 years ago. This year’s Boundary walk marks that…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE CAMPAIGN GROUP STAUNCH’S FORMAL OBJECTIONS AND REASONS FOR REFUSAL IN RESPECT OF PLANNING APPLICATION NE/22/00151/FUL, HUNTINGDON ROAD, THRAPSTON. THE SITE IS KNOWN LOCALLY AS CASTLE MANOR FARM, OFF ISLINGTON LANE,THRAPSTON The context of our consideration of this application has been against the approved policy background of the approved Joint Core Strategy…
We hate to keep banging on about it but this is incredibly important. There are only a few days left for you to submit your objection to the massive proposed warehouse development on the Castle Manor farm site. The deadline is Saturday 12th March. We can win this but numbers are important and we need…
Support for the work of STAUNCH to date has been remarkable but if we are to continue to effectively challenge the decimation of our countryside, preserve the environmental integrity of the Upper Nene Valley and protect the community interests of its villages from inappropriate, unsustainable over commercialisation, we desperately need your help. To that end,…
The Castle Manor Farm development is not a done deal! Your views are important and will count. Submit your objections to the Castle Manor Farm Development by the 12th March In our last Bulletin, we provided some advice as to how residents may wish to approach letters of objection against the planning application for warehouse…
Titchmarsh Parish Council has voted unanimously to oppose the proposed industrial development at Castle Manor Farm. At an extraordinary meeting of the council, held on Wednesday, March 2nd, several people spoke during public open time about the massive impact such a development would have. Around 60 villagers were in attendance to hear the discussion. They…
IM Properties, the developers behind the proposed Glebe Land development, have posted their draft masterplans for the site. They claim they have been developed to meet the needs of business and deliver on our commitment to sustainability, being sensitive to the local area, and providing benefits for the local community. The masterplan – which includes…
They’ve committed to the date just over six months after voting against a bid to do so North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) has committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030 – just over six months after voting against a bid to do so. The Conservative-run authority has today (Monday) announced its target date for net zero emissions,…
Please note this advice was recently updated. Click here to read the up-to-date article. To assist you in identifying the key areas for objection, STAUNCH are currently undertaking a full review of the application. This will take some time, but at the conclusion, we will provide you with some advice that we hope will be…
A smart new video has been released highlighting the issues and effects of the proposed industrial developments on the edge of the village. The video features interviews with local farmer Roly Wood, STAUNCH secretary Sharon Cole and wildlife expert Kevin Jefferies. Each gives a compelling account of the impact on wildlife and the rural landscape…
Titchmarsh Parish Council have just been informed that a planning application [NE/22/00151/FUL] has been submitted for the area we refer to as the Castle Manor Farm site. The closing date for comments is Monday 7th March 2022. An extraordinary meeting of the Parish Council has been called for Wednesday 2nd March 2022 at 6.30pm in…
STAUNCH have issued a second update. It includes lots of new details of the group’s continued efforts to halt the proposed planning developments on the Glebe and Castle Manor Farm sites. A printed version of the bulletin is included in the Jan/Feb 2022 issue of the Titchmarsh Times. You can also download it via the…
Following the success of the recent STAUNCH public meeting – held in Titchmarsh some weeks before Christmas – a follow-up meeting was due to be held in the Plaza, Thrapston on Friday 14th January. The aim was to brief local residents about how the proposed twin developments will impact the lives of people in Thrapston…
He’s urged the Government to ensure funding for it is incorporated into an all-important road strategy Kettering will simply grind to a halt unless funding for a new A14 junction is sorted out, the town’s MP has warned. The £40m junction 10A, between Barton Seagrave and Cranford, has been in the pipeline for years as…
Yesterday it was announced that Newlands, the developer of the 4 warehouse complex at Oakdown Farm have withdrawn their appeal. So for now no letter-writing by supporters is necessary. Thanks to those who may have written. This does mean that the Oakdown Oaks are still safe. Background Approval was given on 7th April 2021 for…
Our local MP, Tom Pursglove has made a statement expressing his concern about proposals for a “significant commercial development …on open green fields”. Tom’s piece to camera can be viewed below. Tom adds: I have been receiving many emails from local residents relating to warehouse proposals near to Thrapston and Titchmarsh. I have been writing…
North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) will receive funding via the Local Authority Treescape Fund for the planting and upkeep of 1040 new trees across the local area up until 2025. NNC has been successful in securing a total of £237,504 of capital funding to be received between financial years 2021/22 through to 2024/25 and the grant…
A new flagship UK headquarters for global transport and logistics company DSV is underpinning plans for a 120-acre logistics and industrial scheme being proposed by developer IM Properties near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. The developer has notified the local community to its plans through a consultation document, which states that it is looking to develop the…
Residents of Titchmarsh and Thrapston are preparing for two major planning applications. An action group set up to fight the development of two proposed warehouses on land close to Thrapston will join forces with others across the area as a pressure group. STAUNCH (Save Titchmarsh and Upper Nene Countryside and Habitats) is a group formed…
For years, the town has welcomed thousands of European workers to fill warehouse roles – but that’s now changing Anyone passing through industrial areas of Corby recently can’t have failed to spot the glut of signs that have popped-up on fences offering work to those who need it. For more than a decade, the economy of Corby…
In case you missed it, the plight of the Glebe Land and Castle Manor Farm sites have been in the local news recently. First Alison Bagley penned a piece in the Northants Telegraph: From spires and squires to huts and trucks: consultations start on huge warehouse schemes near Thrapston This was followed a few days…
About 150 people, from Titchmarsh and beyond, came to an exhibition at St Mary’s Church last Thursday, November 18th, held by Newlands Developments, who propose to build up to 200,000 sq metres of warehouses on the 175-acre Castle Manor Farm site, a mile south of Titchmarsh on the north side of the A14. If planning…
There are now three confirmed public consultations being held in the immediate future regarding the development of both the Glebe Land and castle Manor Farm sites: Castle Manor Farm Thursday 18th November at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Titchmarsh – between 2:30 – 7:30pm Wednesday 24th November at St James Church Hall, Thrapston –…
Planning permission for a warehouse that promised nearly 1,400 jobs has been overturned after a parish council challenged the decision. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council approved the distribution centre, reportedly for Amazon, in April. However, the authority later said it had wrongly described the landscape impact on Dummer village. More than 100,000 people signed a petition to stop…