13. Funding, Delivery, and Governance

13.1 Funding sources

• Section 106 contributions and Community Infrastructure Levy receipts from the existing pipeline of housing schemes, including West Corby — and including the long-overdue Little Stanion £2 million education obligation.
• Network North (former HS2) road resurfacing money — North Northamptonshire is due over £62 million between 2023/24 and 2033/34.
• Department for Transport Road Investment Strategy and Major Road Network programme.
• Network Rail Control Period funding (CP7 to 2029, CP8 thereafter).
• DfT new-stations and rail enhancement funding, and successor programmes to Restoring Your Railway — the primary route for Welland Valley Rail and Corby station.
• Department for Education capital programmes for school expansion and SEND provision.
• NHS Northamptonshire ICB capital budgets and Kettering General Hospital's estates programme, for Willowbrook and East Corby Health.
• Public Works Loan Board prudential borrowing by NNC for council-led housing.
• The Housing Revenue Account, reformed Right to Buy receipts combinable with Social and Affordable Homes Programme grant from 2026/27, the Local Authority Housing Fund, and Warm Homes and ECO4 funding, for council housing retrofit, replacement and acquisition (Section 3.4).
• Bus Service Improvement Plan grants, Enhanced Partnership funding, NNC's own transport budget and Section 106 bus contributions, for the bus network (Section 6.4).
• Successor programmes to the Towns Fund.
• Pride in Place Programme — up to £20 million over ten years for the Kingswood and Hazel Leys area, with similar funding routes potentially for other deprived neighbourhoods in future bidding rounds.
• Community grants from Corby Town Council and North Northamptonshire Council, for smaller neighbourhood projects such as PTA and SEND parent group grants, community transport pilots and anti-loneliness work (Sections 5.6, 6.5 and 12.4).
• Biodiversity Net Gain receipts under NNC's Local Nature Recovery Strategy, as a long-term stewardship income for the Pen Green Lakes Country Park.
• Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner capital programme, for the Corby police station, and the national Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee uplift, for named PCSOs.
• Anglian Water's Water Resources Management Plan and the Water Resources East regional plan, for reservoir assessment and delivery.
• Arts Council England National Lottery and place partnership funding, the UK Town of Culture award, and business sponsorship, for the Corby arts festival and culture strategy.

13.2 Indicative cost summary

All cost figures are order-of-magnitude estimates intended to support discussion. They are not commitments and would require detailed business cases. The Willowbrook expansion depends on a clinical case that only the NHS can make, and the East West Rail 2 figure covers a study, not a scheme. Note too the difference in character between the items: the council housing lines are capital, largely fundable from the Housing Revenue Account and reformed Right to Buy receipts, whereas most of the bus items are revenue — an annual commitment, not a one-off build — which is harder to secure and easier to withdraw. Any bus campaign should be built around that distinction rather than around a headline capital number.

13.3 Phasing

13.4 Governance

• Annual Infrastructure Watch report for Corby, published each autumn and presented to a public meeting in the town, with written responses requested from every body named in it.
• Greater Corby Joint Infrastructure Forum, meeting quarterly in public in Corby.
• Annual public meetings in each neighbourhood and village, reporting back on delivery against this plan.
• Open data: all major scheme business cases published in full.
• Five-year refresh of this plan, with full public consultation across every neighbourhood and village in the Greater Corby Growth Area.

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