Thrapston Consultation Meeting Postponed

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…