THE LIB DEMS won control of the Council for the first time in May 2007. Before 2007, the Council was run by a minority Conservative administration. For 12 years before that by Labour. The Conservatives left the Council in administrative and financial chaos. It had been rated poor by the Audit Commission in successive reports in 2004 […]

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 […]

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 […]

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE County Council cuts up to 900 jobs, turns off half the street lights, drops bus subsidies, scraps lollipop men and women…..but it has managed to find £2m for council leader Jim Harker’s vanity project – the Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership (NEP). The county council’s bid for a Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) was rejected by the […]

ON THURSDAY 24 Feb the Conservatives on Northants County Council used their large majority to pass their budget at County Hall. Because of their financial mismanagement, the impact of the recent Government cuts has been horrendous, but once the vote was taken and the budget was passed, the Conservatives clapped and cheered themselves as people […]

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 […]