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Widespread public consultation is today launching across Northamptonshire with residents and businesses on future opening hours for the main customer services for the new West and North councils when they go live on 1 April next year.  The consultation closes on 23rd August.The proposals focus on bringing current opening hours, whether by telephone or face […]

The leader of the North Northamptonshire Shadow Authority has today announced the councillors who will have a portfolio role in the unitary preparations for the new council in the north.Russell Roberts, North Northamptonshire Shadow Authority Leader, said: “This is a key step in creating a new council of which we can all be proud.“The portfolio […]

As part of their plans to transform local services for the future, the two new shadow authorities for North and West Northamptonshire have signed up to the Local Digital Declaration today along with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Government Digital Service. The declaration is a cross sector shared mission, enabling […]

Closer partnership working is the key to ensuring the new North Northamptonshire Council has better, joined-up services for residents, councillors heard last night. At their latest online meeting, members of the North Northants Shadow Executive endorsed a fresh collaborative approach with the existing councils towards managing land, buildings and finances in the run-up to the […]

Councillors on the North Northamptonshire Shadow Executive met last night for the first time to agree the scope of a suite of task groups that will help to deliver a new unitary council in the north of the county.Over 150 councillors met online last week for the very first North Northamptonshire Shadow Authority meeting. Last […]

Councillors from across North Northamptonshire came together last night for an historic meeting that laid the foundations for the new unitary council in April next year.Members from Corby, East Northants, Kettering and Wellingborough councils joined county councillors covering those areas to take up their seats for the first meeting of the North Northamptonshire Shadow Authority, […]

Councillors from across Northamptonshire will take up their seats on the two new shadow authorities this week as preparations progress to create the North and West unitary councils. Members of the West Northamptonshire Shadow Authority will meet for the first time at 7pm on Tuesday (2 June) and the North Northamptonshire Shadow Authority at 7pm […]

A national recruitment drive launches today to find and appoint the chief executives and statutory director roles that will head up Northamptonshire’s two new unitary councils.Legislation requires that by the end of December this year, a permanent Chief Executive, Monitoring Officer and Chief Finance Officer (Section 151) must be in place for each of the […]

Two new Northamptonshire shadow authorities will hold their first meetings early next month as preparations progress to create the North and West Northamptonshire unitary councils on 1 April next year. Members of the West Northamptonshire Shadow Authority will meet for the first time on Tuesday, 2 June at 7pm and the North Northamptonshire Shadow Authority […]

With tackling the Coronavirus everyone’s top priority, plans for creating two new councils in Northamptonshire will be scaled down, with a new approach called ‘Safe and Legal Plus’.New legislation that came into effect on 8 May, as expected confirms the new North and West Northamptonshire Councils will start on 1 April 2021.  This follows the […]