Ian A McCord

The Appeals Inspectorate, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State and Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Raynor, has allowed the DHL Appeal to given planning permission to build gigantic warehouses on the edge of Towcester. This scale of development in a site that was ear marked for small and medium size industrial units is just

WNC met 9 Jan to agree to express an interest in the creation of new Mayoral Authority covering South Midlands, that is Northants, Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes. This proposed body would sit above West Northants, North Northants, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Councils. A Mayor would be directly elected and charge an amount

The Planning Inspectorate has allowed the appeal to build 32 houses off The Meadows in Old Stratford. WNC refused the application with concerns about it being outside the village confines, access and flooding. Following the October floods in Stony Stratford, I wrote to the Planning Inspectorate to update them with fresh evidence. They replied it

This council has no confidence in the Board, Chief Executive and Chairman of Northamptonshire Partnership Homes and calls on them all to resign.” I submitted my motion to WNC on 13 November 24 for the meeting 28 November. More notice than the rules say are required. All motions are checked by legal team at WNC,

The damning and shocking report on Northampton Partnership Homes which will be discussed at WNC Cabinet meeting on Tue 19 November requires a clear out of those who should be responsible. The Chief Executive, Chair and Board are ultimately responsible for the management of the company and report through to the council as its sole

I attended the Speed Reduction Panel meeting via Teams today. I have yet to get the official decision but I am not optimistic it will be positive outcome, to reduce the limit from 60mph. The Panel advised that they had looked at collision data and there were no fatal or serious injury collisions in the

Almost a year ago a car came off the A508 in Cosgrove ending up in the ditch. The leaves returned to the trees and obscured the view. The ditch is 3 or 4 metres below the road surface. For WNC it is a case of out of sight and out of mind. For a number

West Northants Council has been sitting on £1.3m it collected from Persimmon Homes as since January 2024. Independent Councillor, Ian McCord, Deanshanger, has said, “West Northants Council has been sitting on this money since January and will not hand it over to Sponne School as it is too busy inventing processes and keeping town hall