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S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2025 No. 1057
INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING
The Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange
(Amendment No. 2) Order 2025
Made - - - - 2nd October 2025
Coming into force 3rd October 2025
An application has been submitted under paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008(a) to
the Secretary of State in accordance with the Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and Revocation
of, Development Consent Orders) Regulations 2011(b) for a non-material change to the
Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange Order 2019(c).
The Secretary of State, having considered the responses to the publicity and consultation carried
out in accordance with regulations 6 and 7 of the Infrastructure Planning (Changes to, and
Revocation of, Development Consent Orders) Regulations 2011, has decided to make this Order
amending the Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange Order 2019.
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the
Planning Act 2008, makes the following Order.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange (Amendment
No. 2) Order 2025 and comes into force on 3rd October 2025.
Amendment of the Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange Order 2019
2.—(1) The Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange Order 2019 is amended as follows.
(2) In Schedule 16 (certification of plans and documents), in the row of the table relating to “the
parameters plan” (Document number 2.10), for the entry in column 3 substitute 4054-R007-S4.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Marco Picardi
Head of the Transport and Works Act Order Unit
2nd October 2025 Department for Transport
(a) 2008 c. 29. Paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 was amended by paragraph 4(6)(a) of Schedule 8 to the Marine and Coastal Access
Act 2009 (c. 23), paragraph 72(3) to (7) of Schedule 13 and Part 20 of Schedule 25 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), section
28(2) of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7) and section 128 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55).
(b) S.I. 2011/2055 as amended by S.I. 2012/635, S.I. 2012/2654, S.I. 2012/2772, S.I. 2013/522, S.I. 2013/755, S.I. 2015/377,
S.I. 2015/760, S.I. 2015/1682, S.I. 2017/524, S.I. 2018/378, S.I. 2019/734, S.I. 2020/764, S.I. 2020/1534, S.I. 2022/634 and
S.I. 2023/1071.
(c) S.I. 2019/1358 as amended by S.I. 2020/1670 and S.I. 2023/418.EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange Order 2019 (as amended
by the Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange (Correction) Order 2020 and the
Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange (Amendment) Order 2023), a development
consent order under the Planning Act 2008.
This Order follows an application under paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Planning Act 2008 for a
non-material change to allow for an increase in the amount of mezzanine floor space to be
provided as part of the authorised development (with the increase being 1.2 million sqft (111,480
sqm)).
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