The residential site will provide two-thirds less affordable housing than is set out in West Northamptonshire Council's planning policy
A Northamptonshire council has slammed plans for what they called a "ghetto" of 100 affordable homes in a Northampton housing estate. Outline permission was granted for the development in 2021 by the now-defunct Northampton Borough Council for up to 3,000 homes to the north-west of Northampton town centre.
As the 16 homes only equate to roughly six per cent of the site, the rest of the shortfall will be made up in a group of affordable properties to the south of Dallington Grange.Cllr André González De Savage said he was "not happy at all" about the provision of affordable housing being "shoved" into a "corner somewhere".
Councillors asked if they could have any influence over changing the plans for the condensed area of housing, but were told that the last chance they would've had was when the outline application was negotiated by Northampton Borough Council years ago.
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