Conservative councillors in Daventry have voted down a motion that would have commended their own leader over his decision not to accept extra payment for work he did.
A new ‘innovation centre’ will be built as part of a vehicle testing hub in a Northamptonshire village - despite it breaching a local council’s planning policy.
The new North Northamptonshire unitary authority will elect councillors based on existing county wards and not on borough and district ward boundaries because there is not enough time for a full boundary review before the election.
Some asylum-seeking children who are being looked after in Northamptonshire will no longer receive financial support from the county council once they turn 18.
The children’s commissioner sent in to help turn around Northamptonshire’s failing children’s services has said the service is ‘still very fragile and there remain unacceptable risks in the system’.
Library campaigers say they have ‘grave fears’ about the future of some of the 17 Northamptonshire libraries which will be handed over to library groups.
The face of local government in Northamptonshire will change forever after the government this afternoon approved the formation of two new unitary councils.
The leaders of the eight councils being scrapped to make way for two new unitary councils say they will focus their efforts on creating new authorities that will put the interests of residents at the heart of all decision-making.
