Jill Hope

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Archive for the ‘Traffic and road accidents’ Category

PCSOs and streetlights

by Jill Hope on 5 March, 2012

Do you think that the Conservative County Councils cuts to PCSOs and streetlights will make Northamptonshire less safe? You can vote on these issues here.

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I’m pleased to hear that the county council will be cutting the speed limit from the current 70mph to 50mph. This will apply to the entire length of Danes Camp Way from the Mereway roundabout to its junction with Upton Way and the A43 towards the M1 and Towcester. It’s not before time – there […]

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Sleepless in Hunsbury?

by Jill Hope on 24 April, 2011

IS THERE a traffic noise problem in West Hunsbury? Residents in Dalestones, Claystones and Marlstones, at the end of Ladybridge Drive, at the junction of Upton Way and Danes Camp Way are complaining about excess traffic noise since the new industrial area was opened up behind the estate known locally as both ‘Hunsbury Meadows’ and […]

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Parking problems on Hunsbury Hill Road

by Jill Hope on 23 April, 2011

SOME RESIDENTS  in St Benedicts Mount alongside the church have complained about visitors to the church parking inconsiderately.

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LIGHTS GOING out in Northampton.

by Jill Hope on 21 April, 2011

THE CONSERVATIVE  County Council in Northamptonshire has decided to turn off half the street lamps in Northamptonshire. This is in a desperate bid to save money. It will start in May – after the 5 May Borough Council elections of course! Now let’s just think about this – if lights are there in the first […]

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Blood on their hands?

by Jill Hope on 4 April, 2011

MOST PEOPLE don’t like speed cameras. Getting caught doing 37mph in an empty village street at midnight seems so unjust. Some cameras like the one on Rushmere Road are on hills, so to keep to 30mph on that road you have to brake continually all the way from the top of the hill. On motorways […]

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THE TORY GROUP on the Borough Council have announced that they want to open up Abington Street to traffic once again. They are proposing opening up the “middle section” of Abington Street as key part of their manifesto for the May local elections. If elected they say they will carry out the work within four […]

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AN HGV COMMERCIAL TRAILER HIRE company is operating illegally on the Gayton Road Industrial Site near Milton Malsor. This is pouring increasing numbers of  HGVs onto the Towcester road in Milton, Hunsbury and Blisworth. This breach of planning conditions has been going on since April 2009 but Conservative-run South Northants Council (SNC) has so far […]

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YOU probably saw the pictures of the serious crash on the junction between Rowtree Road and Towcester Road in the December FOCUS. On the evening of Wednesday 16 March yet another serious crash at this junction involving at least 3 cars and the police. Each of these incidents costs a lot of money – in […]

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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 […]

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