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STAUNCH
protecting the countryside
STAUNCH – Save Titchmarsh and Upper Nene Countryside and Habitats – is a campaign group set up by local people to oppose two proposed logistics parks on the green fields between Titchmarsh and Thrapston.
The campaign began in the summer of 2020 when the Church of England – sold a 10-year ‘development option’ on 114 acres of Glebe Land, just north of the Haldens Parkways Industrial Estate, between Ranway and the A605. IM Properties have since put forward proposals for a huge logistics park on the site.
In May 2021 plans for warehouses on
a second 175 acre site, under different ownership, suddenly emerged, from Newlands Developments. This site, to the immediate
east of Haldens Parkway, is about 50% bigger than the Glebe Land and extends almost as far eastwards as The Leys (the road connecting Titchmarsh to the A14). STAUNCH is calling this site the Castle Manor Farm site, after the farm that would be covered by the development.
A map of the Glebe Land (shaded in red)
and the adjacent Castle Manor Farm site is shown above. If both developments went ahead, Halden Parkway would quadruple in size.
Neither site has been designated as suitable for any kind of development in the Local Plan. The warehouses proposed would have a maximum height of 24.5 metres (eighty feet) above ground level – even higher than the current warehouses at Haldens Parkway. Thrapston would be just as badly affected as Titchmarsh and other villages, and views from the lakes north of Thrapston would be badly effected.
STAUNCH is keen to ensure the community is well-organised to object to any planning applications that emerge in the months
ahead. Please contact us with any questions, suggestions, or offers of help.
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www.staunchcampaign.org
Email: info@staunchcampaign.org