THE FOUNTAIN ON THE MARKET SQUARE has at last been refurbished and open. The work cost about £50,000. Was it worth it? Read what the BBC have reported.

SO YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH FLYTIPPING in the alleyway behind your house?. Would you like to see the alleyway gated? Such a scheme would need the agreement of all the residents whose properties back on to the alleyway. If you’re interested, call me.

LOCAL RESIDENTS attending the March meeting of the St James Residents’ Association complained of the state of so many garages in the area. There are 1,800 empty council-owned garages in Northampton, and at a time when people are keen to rent a garage from the Northampton Borough Council, the council has many, many garages that […]

A PROTEST AGAINST THE OPENING OF THE EAST END OF ABINGTON STREET TO TRAFFIC is to take place on Saturday 29 March around lunchtime. The protest will take the form of inviting people to leave a chalk message on the street. We are assured the messages will be water-soluble and wash away in the rain […]

The next open meeting of the St. James Residents’ Association will take place on Thursday 27th March at 7.00pm at the Doddridge centre. The main item to be discussed at the meeting will be the proposed transfer of the council housing stock to an Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO). The St. James Residents’ Association office […]

THANKS TO NEIGHBOURHOOD WARDEN LORRAINE HEMMINGTON for arranging for some signs to go up in St James reminding cyclists that they should not ride on the pavement in the area. The request followed complaints from local residents – drivers exiting their drive to get to the road, and dog-walkers who have been startled by the […]

YET ANOTHER DAY OF COMPLETE GRIDLOCK in St James, apparently because the Borough Council tried to ‘manage’ the traffic flows, with bollards at Sixfields that actually made matters worse. Traffic at a standstill for hours again. What about the pollution for local residents from traffic running engines and not moving? How on earth….

NORTHAMPTON’S NEW NORTH GATE BUS STATION has opened with gridlock in the town centre on its first real working day test.Click here to see the BBC report

MOST PEOPLE WILL KNOW BY NOW THAT Bloor Homes has put in a revision to the planning application number N/2013/1325. The changes appear to be pretty minor, though they are clearly reacting to some of the objections raised by residents. If you have objected before, you need to object again. This is because….

THE PUBLIC RESPONSE to a survey by Northampton Borough Council was a resounding “NO” by THREE to ONE but the council ignore it and just carry on. So what was the point of asking the public in the first place? You can see the full reports by clicking here – the following is a summary: […]