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To save money, Northamptonshire Council was planning to cut services even for vulnerable people including vulnerable children. [6] Austerity measures are blamed for the insolvency, as is the council's refusal to raise council tax despite the rising costs of providing social services. For half a decade the council used 'accounting ruses' and ...
The Community Charge was extremely unpopular, leading to the poll tax riots of 1990, [1] and contributing to the resignation of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister later that year. [ 2 ] The sections of the Act pertaining to the Community Charge were repealed by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 , which introduced the new Council Tax as a ...
It bordered the East Northamptonshire district to the east, the Borough of Kettering to the south and west, the Harborough district of Leicestershire to the north-west, and the county of Rutland to the north-east. In 2021 the district had a population of 75,571. [2] The council, Corby Borough Council was based at the Cube in the town of Corby. [3]
The council was created on 1 April 2020, but did not become fully functional until a year later. It was created to eliminate the need for charter trustees and to ensure Northampton had a representative body, following the abolition of the former Northampton Borough Council, which was merged into the larger unitary authority West Northamptonshire Council, following local government changes in ...
North Northamptonshire Council is the local authority for North Northamptonshire, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. Corby, the administrative centre and largest settlement in North ...
The council said a £1.5m grant from the government's Towns Fund and a further £7m from the Northampton Waterside Enterprise Zone would help deliver the project, which it hoped would "contribute ...
Sajid Javid, the then-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, had opened an independent investigation into the council's finances in January 2018 after the council had announced the previous month that it would seek to increase council tax by 5% and pursue £34.3m of cuts.
Northamptonshire County Council (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Local authorities in Northamptonshire" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.