Dec 2025: Flurry of consultations
- Closing date 15/12/25: Northampton Station plans. Email planning@westnorthants.gov.uk to register your objections. See our objections here.
- Closing date 16/12/25 Greyfriars development
- Closing date 21/12/25: Infrastructure & development.
- Closing date 05/01/26: Enforcement cameras
- Closing date 18/01/26: Abington Active Travel Scheme.
- Closing date 27/01/26: West Northants Active Travel Strategy.
Northampton station planning meeting
A West Northants planning committee meeting is to be held on Tuesday regarding plans to build on the site of Northampton station. The plan should be rejected. Here’s why.
Northampton Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP): have your say before 5 October
Seven years since it was first started, the Northampton LCWIP is out for consultation West Northants Council (WNC). Respond now! Here are the details and how to respond.
Nov 2024 – Northampton station: plan still needs improvement.
This is another version of the plan but it still falls short. Learn more and have your say >
Sept 2024 – New Local Transport Plan: have your say now!
The new West Northants Local Transport Plan will shape policy up to 2045. Like the 2012 plan, this plan talks lots about walking and cycling, but the actions are mostly about road building. This is your chance say what you think!
It’s easy to respond by email – and we have text to help you.
May 2024 – New local plan: have your say now!
The new local plan will shape how the town will develop up to 2041. This is our chance to make our town a better place!
All you need to do is send an email – and we have text to help you.
April 2024 – Northampton Station: have your say now!
Following heavy criticism of the original plan, the station plans have been amended, but not enough! Active Travel England – a government body – is scathing in it’s criticism.
To amplify this criticism, all you need to do is send an email – and we’ve got text to help you. Help make our station a proper transport hub for our town, not just a way for a developer to make a lot of money!
Air quality consultation
Northampton is one of the most polluted towns in the UK. Every year, thousands of people suffer ill-health and hundreds die prematurely.
The council had a legal obligation to produce an action plan 17 years ago, and now after a final warning from DEFRA they are finally consulting on a plan.
Act now – consultation extended to 1 April 2024!
Greyfriars redevelopment: an opportunity
Our town needs to be made much more accessible for people on foot or by bike. This is a great opportunity to create the routes we need. Take the survey now. Closes Jan 7th 2024.
Billing Road Corridor Scheme/Abington Area Active Travel Scheme… the story continues…
Three years since the council received active travel funding and 6 months after a consultation closed, you can now read the report summarising the findings.
Here’s a summary of where we’re at, plus the full report.
Health & Wellbeing Strategy consultation
West Northants produced this document in August 2023, with a closing date for the consultation of 29 August.
We picked out two key points:
- Inactivity and obesity are identified as two key causes of ill health and early death (page 22) – a quarter of adults in West Northants are “inactive” and two-thirds are obese. Yet there’s nothing about how these will be addressed – there’s no mention of encouraging walking and cycling by creating better infrastructure.
- Page 24 states: “We will support the work detailed in the air quality action plan through a collaborative working group”. Yet WNC does not have an Air Quality Action Plan. This is now 17 years overdue. It should have been produced in 2006 following the naming of the Air Quality Management Areas.
We’d like to know who will create this Air Quality Action Plan, who are considered stakeholders, what will the process be, and when will it be done?
Respond now to the consultation (closes 29 August)
Air Pollution
There’s evidence that Northampton is the worst place in the UK for air pollution – it’s above UK legal limits and way above the WHO recommended maximum. But West Northants has no plan to reduce it.
15 June 2023 was clean air day. Pictured above are the results of a poll taken by Clean Air Northampton to find what residents want the council to do.
Learn More in this blog post from Climate Change West Northants.
Abington Street & Fish Street proposals
West Northants plans to spend £4.2m of their Towns Fund allocation on Abington St and Fish St.
Some authorities have used a portion of their Towns Fund to create new active travel routes. We think the same should be done in Northampton.
Chalk Lane regeneration proposal
West Northants also plans to spend £1.5m of its Towns Fund to create a new park in Chalk Lane.
This looks like a great opportunity to create a walking route from the train station to the bus station.
Billing Rd Corridor and Abington Active Travel Scheme
Consultation reopened until 14 May.
We’ve been waiting for the Billing Road Corridor since 2020, when the consultation was abandoned because of a noisy minority.
Now it’s been watered down to this.
Find out what’s happening & how it came about, and read our response.
Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan
This is an absolutely vital document – without it, a Council cannot bid for Active Travel infrastructure funding. Yet Northampton doesn’t have one.
Learn about the Northampton Local Cycling & Walking Plan (LCWIP).
See our timeline and view the plan that disappeared.
Independent survey of Northampton residents
In 2021, Northamptonshire County Council commissioned an independent survey into attitudes to cycling and walking in Northampton.
It showed that most people want more priority given to walking and cycling, even if it means less convenience for car users.
Our quiz
Test your knowledge with our Active Travel Quiz.
Article by Councillor Emma Roberts
“Lots of people contact me about Active Travel and more friendly streets. They want to see change and the ambition to achieve it.”
Read Emma’s article from the Climate Action West Northants newsletter.
Active Travel Presentation
Active Travel is not a niche issue. It’s a major part of national government policy, as defined by the Department for Transport and Active Travel England.
To get this message across, we created this presentation.
Response to other consultations
Response to WNC budget proposals.
Northampton station multi-storey car park and other development: see our summary of the plans and our response.
Talk to West Northants Council
View our talk to the full council meeting.
Living Streets Northampton 