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View Article  Healthy Living Hub
View Article  NBC Cabinet receive the Masterplan
At tonight's Northampton Borough Council Cabinet meeting, the following recommendations were agreed:

2.1 The Cabinet received the Masterplan Proposals Document.

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View Article  Letter from Regeneration portfolio holder published today
Letter published in the Chronicle & Echo today;

Can I reassure Chron readers that there are no plans to 'concrete ...   more »
View Article  MASTERPLAN WELCOMED BY MANY LOCAL PEOPLE
The Masterplan for Northampton Racecourse has been generally welcomed by many local people as a positive step towards maintaining and ...   more »
View Article  Welcome & Information Spheres in place........
The Internationally-renown Haddonstone company have today completed and installed the Welcome & Information spheres at 9 of the main entrances ...   more »
View Article  MASTERPLAN COMPLETED!
The Masterplan for Northampton Racecourse was offically presented to Northampton Borough Council yesterday. This was in preparation for the NBC ...   more »
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View Article  DRAFT MASTER PLAN OPTIONS UNVEILED!
An open public meeting is to be held on July 24th, 8pm at the Open Door Centre, 147 Kettering Rd. This will be to unveil the 3 possible options for the master plan to develop The Racecourse and to get feedback about the pros & cons of these options.

If you are reading this article, then you are very welcome to attend the meeting!
View Article  Ed Milliband visits The Racecourse
Ed Milliband, Minister for the Third Sector, spent the afternoon meeting the Healthy Living Hub steering group members, plus other ...   more »
View Article  Masterplan tender brief released

The tender for the masterplan brief which will determine the future use and developments for The Racecourse is released today....   more »

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View Article  View the complete Feasibility Study here

Please open the attached file for the complete Feasiblity Study.

Please be patient -it's a very large document!

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View Article  Support from Northampton Arts Collective
A very useful meeting was held at the Northampton Arts Collective (NAC) exhibition in the Fish Market yesterday evening.  Jayne ...   more »
View Article  LAUNCH OF THE HLH FEASIBILITY STUDY

After 5 months of research, collecting and analysing data, questioning local residents, calculating the costs involved and consulting with many ...   more »

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View Article  Your Views will lead to Action
Your views will lead to action

AN ambitious plan by residents could see The Racecourse transformed into a regional beacon ...   more »
View Article  Chronicle & Echo survey supports the HLH proposals

The campaign by the Northampton Chronicle & Echo newspaper run in association with the Friends of Northampton Racecourse is entering a ...   more »

View Article  Northampton Borough Council cross-party support to improve The Racecourse
Northampton Borough Councillors from all the main political parties tonight passed a motion supporting the plans to regenerate The Racecourse, ...   more »
View Article  The Racecourse Summit -a great success!

This important event was jointly hosted by the Northampton Chronicle & Echo & the Friends of Northampton Racecourse on July 20th.  The Summit gave an opportunity for leaders in Northampton to hear about the ideas for improving The Racecourse and to become involved in a partnership plan to progress these ideas forward.  Ann Tate, University of Northampton, Sally Keeble MP, Brian Binley MP and Mike Hayes, CEO of the West Northants Development Corporation were just a few of the 26 leaders who accepted the invitation and heard about the innovative ideas.

The next stage of the development will be the formation of The Racecourse Partnership Board which will meet on August 16th at 2pm.

View Article  Environmental Audit & Community Safety Report

An Environmantal Audit & Community Safety Report has been published by Kate Wright, Community Safety Officer, Northants Police.

Please see ...   more »

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View Article  Articles about the Healthy Living Hub in the Chronicle & Echo newspaper

Articles about the HLH project and regenerating The Racecourse appearing in the Chronicle & Echo these past weeks:

http://www.mysporttoday.co.uk/sportsmain.aspx?sitecode=nce&sportcode=ele

View Article  The Health, Wellbeing and Community Cohesion outcomes we hope to achieve

Providing a FRESH Start for The Racecourse

Food, Recreation, Exercise, Spiritual and emotional well being, H...   more »

View Article  The Chronicle & Echo campaign to support The Racecourse

Reclaim town's emerald heart ON MONDAY JUNE 5TH the Chronicle & Echo launched a campaign to 'Reclaim The Racecourse' for the people of ...   more »

View Article  Council approves motions supporting the Racecourse on 24th July

These are the resolutions passed by the Council on Monday 24th July 2006 that were proposed by Cllr Andrew Simpson

 

Northampton Racecourse Park

This Council recognises Northampton Racecourse as one of the most important parks in the town.

 

Further this Council:

 

  • Acknowledges that recent occurrences of anti-social behaviour and crime on the park have led to concerns about the safety of the environment on the park.

 

  • Welcomes the initiative by the Chronicle & Echo in its ‘Reclaim the Racecourse’ campaign the recent summit held jointly with Friends of Northampton Racecourse.

 

  • Welcomes the ‘healthy living hub’ initiative as a possible way of levering funds and resources to create a new public facility on the park.

 

  • Notes that it passed policy in 2003 to draw up a rolling 5 year plan for the park and that this has not happened

 

This Council resolves to:

 

·        Work with all stakeholders and partners to draw up a masterplan for the park.

·        Support the idea of the healthy living hub to seek funding for plans to improve the park and develop new public facilities

·        Set up a Racecourse Action Team headed by a NBC manager that draws together all NBC stakeholders and external partners.

·        Actively seek external funding opportunities for improvements to the park

 

 

Proposed: Cllr Andrew Simpson

 

The Council also approved these further resolutions:-

'This Council welcomes The Racecourse Summit held on Thursday 20th July 2006, and congratulates the Chronicle & Echo for their initiative and involvement. This Council also welcomes the contribution and attendance of all other Partners and Stakeholders, especially the Friends of the Racecourse. IN particular this Council welcomes the ‘Healthy Living Hub’ initiative and appreciates the effort put in by stakeholders to take this forward.

This Council requests the Cabinet to discuss and address the outcomes of the Summit and work with Partners and Stakeholders to drive them forward. Council also requests Cabinet to identify resources and support and develop a viable action plan and long term vision for The Racecourse in partnership wuth Partners and Stakeholders’

View Article  Health and wellbeing benefits presentation - Dr David Smart

Here is the presentation that Dr David Smart gave to the Racecourse Summit on Thursday 20th July 2006 in which he advocated exercise as a way of combatting depression and other conditions.

 

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View Article  Some ideas -Interactive Water Fountains
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View Article  Map of Northampton showing areas of deprivation
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View Article  Map of CastleWard area showing Super Output Area
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View Article  A summary of the HLH project
From the presentation given to the Northampton Central Area Partnership of Borough & County Councillors at County Hall in November ...   more »
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View Article  Feasibility Study brief
   The brief for the Feasibility Study is attached.  It lists what the Healthy Living Hub project steering group think ...   more »
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View Article  Information & Training event 7th June 7.30-9.30pm
The Healthy Living Hub Project
 
This is an open invitation to an Information and Training Event on Wednesday 7th ...   more »
View Article  Feasibility Study Commissioned

The Friends of Northampton Racecourse have commissioned a feasibility study to look at the potential for a new Healthy Living ...   more »