{"id":579462,"date":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579462\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:47:08","slug":"daventry-care-village-plan-approved-despite-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579462\/","title":{"rendered":"Daventry care village plan approved despite objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keith Astley, a councillor who spoke for the town council, acknowledged the need for care provision, but also said the plans would end the possibility of extending a neighbouring cemetery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, concerns about the development were also raised by the Daventry Allotment and Garden Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The association said building the homes would <a href=\"https:\/\/westnorthants.moderngov.co.uk\/documents\/s28413\/2023.7816.FULL%20-%20Committee%20Report.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">involve the demolition of a local shop, external<\/a> used by the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the agent for the application told the committee its client was &#8220;committed to replacing the shop building&#8221;, but it would not be on the land he owned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A previous proposal for the site, which included an 85-bed care home, 24 extra care apartments and 16 independent-living maisonette units, was approved in 2019, but the agent said that the planning permission lapsed due to complications around Covid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Astley, a councillor who spoke for the town council, acknowledged the need for care provision, but also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-579462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}