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Between the late 1960s and 1970s, the Spring Park estate (which includes Acre Lane, Rookery Lane and Sherwood Avenue) was developed in the west, followed in the east by Obelisk estate, which ushered in the construction of Holly Lodge Drive.
In 1972, the College of Education was opened by Margaret Thatcher. The college, located off the Boughton Green Road, later became the main campus for the [[University of Northampton]], before it moved to its new town centre campus in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-uni-colleges/northampton-university-of-459003.html?amp |title = Northampton, University of |newspaper=[[The Independent]]}}</ref> The old campus was demolished for new housing. In 1974, the Kingsthorpe Shopping Centre opened. It included shops, a post office, a pub and a [[Waitrose]] supermarket. In the early 2000s, alterations were made to demolish part of the centre to extend Waitrose and its car park. In 2021, a [[Starbucks]] coffee shop opened and Waitrose completed a refurbishment. A second supermarket was built next to Waitrose in 1986; it operated as [[Safeway (UK)|Safeway]] for a number of years but is now an [[Asda]] supermarket. In 2023, a [[Cook Trading|COOK]] shop opened next to Waitrose.
Newer housing developments, including Tollgate Close, Brampton Park and Cedrus Court, were also completed by the 1980s. Residential development has continued into the 21st century: Bective Close, Lime Tree Gardens and Scholars Court were built on former brownfield land. Buckton Fields, a large new housing estate built land directly to the north of the border of the Kingsthorpe parish, is still in development.
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