Northern Expansion Area

The Northern Expansion Area (NEA) lies on the western edge of Newport Pagnell and the northern edge of the designated area of Milton Keynes.

It is bounded to the east by the M1 Motorway and the Motorway Services Area. The Wolverton Road forms the southern boundary. The site comprises a number of different land uses, including agricultural land, an existing motel site and the site of a former manufacturing plant.

The NEA Development Framework Plan was adopted by MKC as Supplementary Planning Guidance in May 2004. The development will comprise 455 dwellings, live/work units, hotel and employment space. Outline planning permission for residential development was granted for part of the site in July 2005.

Development of the first phase, comprising 58 units, is nearing completion with the first residents moving in in December 2007. Work has commenced on the next  two phases.

Planning Documents

Development Frameworks

• Download Northern Expansion Area Development Framework as a PDF (4.02 Mb)

Development Briefs

• Download Rocla Site and Adjoining Land Development Brief and Design Codes as a PDF (5.64 Mb)

Planning Applications

04/01174/MKPCO - Former Rocla Pipes Site
Development of 455 residential dwellings, up to 3,000 sqm of class C3 / B1 live-work accommodation and up to 150 sqm of D1 community building and open space, parking, landscaping and access (outline).
Status: Approved

05/01888/MKPCR - Former Rocla Pipes Site
Strategic infrastructure comprising spine roads, footways, cycleways, traffic calming, infrastructure drainage and associated works.
Status: Approved

06/00052/MKPCR - Former Rocla Pipes Site
Reserve matters application for 58 dwellings including landscaping, car parking, boundary treatment, and associated works pursuant to the outline planning permission 04/01174/MKPCO (Area 3).
Status: Approved

06/00285/MKPCR - Area 5, Northern Expansion Area
Reserved matters application for 92 dwellings associated with outline application 04/01174/MKP.
Status: Withdrawn

07/00073/MKPCR - Former Rocla Pipes Site
Reserved matters application for 96 dwellings pursuant to outline planning application 04/01174/MKP (Area 5).
Status: Approved

07/00496/MKPCR - Former Rocla Pipes Site
Approval of reserved matters for 123 dwellings (Area 2) pursuant to outline planning application 04/01174/MKP.
Status: Approved

09/00430/MKPCR - Former Rocla Pipeworks
Reserved matters application for Residential Development comprising 99 dwellings including access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale (previously approved as part of reserved matters consent 07/00496/MKPCR)
Status: Approved

10/01212/MKPCNM - Former Rocla Pipes Site
Non-material amendments to 09/00430/MKPCR to provide an en-suite to master bedroom to Plot 1 resulting in internal layout changes and omission of first floor window at Northern Expansion Area, Area2B, Former Rocla Pipes Site, off Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes
Status: Approved

10/01213/MKPCNM - Former Rocla Pipes Site
Non-material amendments to 07/00073/MKPCR to change Plot 64 from a 3-bed to a 4-bed dwelling including internal layout changes and a change of one window to the front elevation from a single to a double window at Northern Expansion Area, Area 5, off Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes
Status: Approved

10/01224/MKPCR - Former Rocla Pipeworks Site
Application for the approval of all reserved matters for Plots 39-40, previously approved under consent ref. 07/00073/MKPCR, to provide an additional bedroom to each unit above the garage at Former Rocla Pipeworks Site, Northern Expansion Area - Area 5, off Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes
Status: Under Consideration

10/01274/MKPCR - Northern Expansion Area
Reserved matters application for the access, appearance, layout, scale and landscaping of 136 dwellings pursuant to outline planning permission ref. 04/01174/MKPCO at the Northern Expansion Area - Area 1, Former Rocla Pipes Site, Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes
Status: Under Consideration

10/01282/MKPCR - Former Rocla Pipeworks Site
Reserved matters application for the access, appearance, layout, scale and landscaping of 42 dwellings and 37 live/work units pursuant to outline planning permission ref. 04/01174/MKPCO at Northern Expansion Area - Area 4, Former Rocla Pipes Site, Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes
Status: Under Consideration