Can anyone hear a cock crow? 

Nuon’s website notes with glee, and we were horrified to hear, that the Brixworth Planning Committee recommended that the Brixworth Parish Council support the Harrington proposal.  Our dismay on hearing the news was the greater when we heard that Nuon had been granted an audience at the Brixworth Planning Committee meeting, when no one from the SNTHWF group was invited.  Furthermore, the planning reasons for opposing a similar development between Brixworth and Hanging Houghton are almost identical on the Harrington site - there are valid objections on matters regarding heritage (in the case of Brixworth the church, and at Harrington the Thor Missile Site); there are valid objections on matters regarding landscape.  We have to wonder, therefore, at the sagacity of Brixworth Planning Committee’s decision and would be interested to know if any of those that gave the reported ‘general assent’ to Nuon’s proposal actually read the Environmental Statement and associated appendices and figures as distinct from just the non-technical summary of the ES and the spin put on it by the Nuon staff whose presentation they heard.

We believe this is yet further reason to ensure that residents who live close to the Harrington site, and others who have an interest in the area, be they walkers, bird watchers, cyclists or horse riders, protect this landscape, the rich heritage, the precious wild life and fight this development by lodging objections with Daventry Planning Department. 

We are pleased to note that the Draughton with Maidwell Parish Council have sent a letter of objection to DDC.  We note that several of the councillors examined the proposal, including the full Environmental Statement, in detail, reporting back to others, and their vote against the proposal was unanimous.