Lane will leave NNDC in April. He will continue to sit on the board of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (NHPAU).
The board of NNDC is now looking for a replacement and hopes to make an announcement within the next couple of weeks.
While at NNDC, Lane has led the regeneration and housing growth programmes in the
Local farmer and businessman David Reynolds took over the role of NNDC chairman from former DTZ senior partner Richard Lay in January.
He said: “It has been a difficult decision but, with the new organisation well established, a new chairman in place and
NNDC was founded in May 2006 by Lane and Lay, the organisation has been integral to the creation of a single delivery body for North Northamptonshire, co-ordinating the headway that has been made in terms of preparing, planning and implementing the area’s large scale regeneration and infrastructure projects.
Lane came to the area in 2002, when he was appointed chief executive of URC Catalyst Corby, prior to the launch of its regeneration framework in January 2003.
Charged with delivering an ambitious programme of regeneration in the former steel town, Lane assembled and led the team responsible for setting the sustainable development of
In three and a half years, NNDC oversaw a threefold increase in major planning applications, 2,176 new housing starts, £255m of private and public sector investment and the transformation of the town centre, which continues.
Lane plans to take a short sabbatical, after which he plans to explore new opportunities in housing and regeneration.
