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Finance and recruitment will be among the focus for councillors steering forward proposals for a new Northamptonshire unitary authority when they meet on Thursday (16 January). Members of the North Northamptonshire Joint Committee will be considering a range of reports and updates on the Future Northants programme at their first meeting of 2020 in the […]

The piece of legislation (Structural Change Order) that formalises the creation of two unitary authorities in Northamptonshire was laid before the General Election was called in 2019. It was considered by the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee and was noted as an ‘instrument of interest’ before purdah started. Then the SCO lay dormant […]

New meeting dates have been scheduled for the two joint committees tasked with progressing proposals for Northamptonshire’s two new unitary authorities.The North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire Joint Committees will resume their meetings in January to continue preparations for setting up shadow authorities for the new unitary councils ahead of their proposed creation in April 2021. […]

The eight local authorities in Northamptonshire are running a soft-market testing exercise for providers of future website/intranet, CRM and Workforce Management System solutions. This is in advance of a formal procurement process, and is in anticipation of formal go-ahead from Parliament for the creation of two new unitary councils in the county in April 2021.  […]

As Parliament has now risen in preparation for a General Election, the Structural Change Order to create two new unitary authorities in Northamptonshire will be considered once a new Government is in place.

Government legislation required to create two new unitary councils in Northamptonshire has been laid before Parliament. The document, known as the Northamptonshire Structural Changes Order 2019 (SCO), sets out how the two new unitary authorities will be formed to replace the existing eight councils on 1 April 2021. The Draft Order will now be considered […]

The Minister for Local Government has written to Northamptonshire councils confirming his decisions for the legislation required for the creation of two new unitary authorities. Known as a Structural Change Order, the legislation sets out timings of elections, duties of shadow authorities (the councils that will be in place prior to the actual North and […]

The Minister for Local Government yesterday wrote to the leaders of Northamptonshire Councils confirming that the legislation necessary to establish the two new councils would be in Parliament as soon as practicable this autumn. He also confirmed that the legislation would provide for elections to the new shadow authorities being held in May 2020. At […]

The latest updates on preparations for a proposed new unitary authority in North Northamptonshire were discussed last night at a public meeting in Wellingborough. Councillors from Corby, East Northants, Kettering, Northamptonshire County and Wellingborough Councils met for the second time as the North Northants Joint Committee on Monday 16 September 2019 After receiving an update […]

Two new websites have launched offering a reliable source of information about the move toward unitary governance in Northamptonshire. Named ‘Future Northants North’ and ‘Future Northants West’ they will carry the same core information while outlining the separate processes being followed in the north and west of the county. View the websites at www.futurenorthantsnorth.org and […]