Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Rothwell North Working Party

This site has been set up to provide information about the activities of the Rothwell North Working Party. The working party was set up to try to influence the developers and Kettering Planning  Committee to take account of the needs of existing residents of Rothwell and Desborough.

The development is ear-marked to eventually provide 700 new houses and the RNWP are concerned that insufficient attention has been paid to traffic management, both during development and in providing infrastructure to support this and other developments in the area.

We are not fighting the development of housing but we are concerned that:

  • construction traffic should not access the site through Rothwell or Desborough but come from an access haul road off the A6 Rothwell/Desborough by-pass.
  • the strategic link road joining the B576 Rothwell - Desborough road to the A6 should not run through the new housing development as this will deter through traffic and create road hazards for pedestrians and cyclists in the development
  • access to Montsaye School and the proposed new primary school should be improved to protect students and residents from traffic.
The working party meet monthly, alternately in Rothwell and Desborough libraries.


Our original statement of purpose is below