LAST year it was very disappointing when the application to the Playbuilder fund to pay for new play equipment in Hunsbury Hill Park failed. Even more so, when it was announced that the Playbuilder fund had ended. Now, some great news – funding for play equipment has been agreed. Both Hunsbury Hill Park and Shelfleys […]

READERS may be aware of the unpopular decision by the Conservative-led County Council to site a waste re-cycling facility on the derelict old Blisworth sewage farm. This is between the railway embankment of the West Coast Main Line and Young’s nursery between Milton Malsor and Blisworth. Both Milton Malsor and Blisworth Parish Councils objected to […]

BETTER service costing less. That’s what your Lib Dem Borough council has achieved. Because of Government cuts, the council had to find a way to collect waste and recycling, and to keep the town clean, more cheaply than ever before. It has taken two years of hard work, but a deal has been done. Early […]

THE COALITION Government has started its consultation on the HS2 line from London to Birmingham. This will be the first link in bringing high speed trains to Manchester, Leeds and eventually Scotland. Opponents argue that the £17bn scheme will be a waste of money and that updating the existing West Coast Main Line (WCML) would […]

PEOPLE talk about how great Northampton market, on one of the largest market squares in England, was in the past. The local paper has, for the last four years, been bombarded with letters criticising the borough council for the market’s decline. This is since the LibDems took control of the borough council in 2007 – […]

The Inspector of the Public Inquiry held in October 2010 published his report in December. He has concluded that the site can remain in the County Council’s Minerals Local Plan as an allocated site for soft sand extraction. The site is between Milton Malsor and Collingtree and lies on a triangular site between the south-west […]

A new recycling facility at the old sewage works in Blisworth (next to Young’s nursery) is set to process 25,000 tonnes of waste every year. That means 25,000 tonnes in, and 25,000 tonnes out. The facility was strongly opposed by Blisworth and Milton Malsor Parish Councils, as well as residents in West Hunsbury. The facility […]

“As I travel around West Hunsbury it’s obvious from the type of traffic I see in Ladybridge Drive and Hunsbury Hill Road that the ‘Local Access Only’ signs are simply not working. Here’s an example of a truck in Ladybridge Drive seen earlier in February” says Jill Hope “What is needed in Hunsbury are 7.5 […]