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Featured: West Northamptonshire Council Draft Budget 2025 to 2026 Consultation
Give us your views on the Council’s Budget proposals for the 2025 to 2026 financial year. Each year West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) plans for the money it will have available and how it should be spent on delivering services in line with the priorities and objectives set out in its...
Closes 21 January 2025
Open activities
Consultation on school admission arrangements for September 2026 intakes
All admission authorities are required to formally publicly consult if they want to make any changes to their schools’ admission arrangements for the following school year. They also have to consult on their schools’ admission arrangements at least once every 7 years, even if there have been no changes during that period. West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) co-ordinates an annual school admissions consultation on behalf of all schools in the council area, regardless of who the...
Have your say on the way 0-19 Universal Children’s Services are delivered
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) and Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) plan to form a formal partnership, to allow NHFT to provide 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (0-19 HCP) services, also known as 0-19 Universal Children’s Services, on the council’s behalf from April 2025. This legal agreement helps the council and NHS providers to work together to improve services. The agreement is called a section 75. It is a legal partnership...
Have your say on the way Sexual Health and Reproductive Services are delivered
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) and Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) plan to form a formal partnership , to allow NHFT to provide Sexual and Reproductive Health services on the council’s behalf from April 2025. This legal agreement helps the council and NHS providers to work together to improve services. The agreement is called a section 75. It is a legal partnership between local authorities and NHS providers, allowing them...
Polling District and Polling Place Review 2024
We are carrying out a review of polling districts and polling places that are used across West Northamptonshire. All local authorities must undertake a review of all polling districts and polling places used for election purposes every five years. A polling district is a geographical area which is used for election purposes only. All people that live in a certain polling district all go to the same building called a polling place to give or cast their votes at a...
Term Dates for West Northamptonshire schools for the 2026-27 academic year
West Northamptonshire Council is now consulting on proposed term dates for Community and Voluntary Controlled schools for the 2026-27 academic year. The consultation will run from Monday 9 December 2024 to Monday 6 January 2025. Please note that Academies, Free, Foundation and Voluntary Aided schools can set their own term dates, although they may choose to adopt those used by the local authority. There are no major structural changes proposed to the school year with the autumn...
Tell us your views about early years and wraparound childcare
We would like to hear from parents and carers of children who receive childcare in West Northamptonshire to understand their experiences and needs. Background We are carrying out a survey to find out if West Northamptonshire has a suitable and sufficient level of childcare available for children up to the age of 14 years old, or up to the age of 25 if they have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). As a local authority, we have a duty to complete...
Help shape our Adult Social Care Direct Payments Policy
We are proposing a new Direct Payments Policy to underpin our current approach to how we process and operate direct payments for Adult Social Care. A new policy will enable us to be transparent and consistent with our approach to adults Direct Payments. We are asking for your views to help shape what should be included in our policy. In this new policy we would also like: To introduce Direct Payments for people with transport requirements to access ...
Public Spaces Protection Orders
Public Spaces Protection Order consultation for Jeyes Jetty Northampton
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) is considering whether to renew a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to close the highway known as Jeyes Jetty. A PSPO...
Public Spaces Protection Order consultation for Dunster Street Northampton
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) is considering whether to renew a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to close the highway known as Dunster Street. ...
Closed activities
West Haddon Housing Needs Survey
West Northamptonshire Council is conducting a housing needs survey in your area, and you are invited to take part. Housing needs surveys are completed to help identify current and future housing need at a local level. Information collected from the surveys helps the council to understand and work towards improving the housing supply to meet those needs and looks at whether the area needs market housing, affordable housing, or both. The last West Haddon Housing Needs Survey was...
Semilong and Trinity Neighbourhood Plan Regulation 16 Consultation 2024 (Submission Version)
Semilong & Trinity (forming part of Northampton Town Council area) have submitted the final version of the Semilong and Trinity Neighbourhood Plan: Semilong and Trinity Neighbourhood Development Plan (Submission Version, June 2024) to West Northamptonshire Council. As the local planning authority, the Council is now required to undertake a consultation to provide an opportunity for all parties to comment on whether the submitted plan meets the basic conditions before it goes to...
Have your say on our Draft Tenancy Policy
We are consulting on the West Northamptonshire draft Tenancy Policy which applies to all council tenants in West Northamptonshire. Background In April 2024, The Regulator of Social Housing introduced new rules called Consumer Standards for Social Housing Landlords in England. One key rule, the Tenancy Standard, needs every Registered Provider of Social Housing to publish easy to understand policies about how they manage tenancies. ...
We asked, you said, we did
Read our responses to your feedback:
We asked
From 8 July to 18 August 2024 we carried out a consultation on a new Tenancy Strategy.
The strategy provides the approach that all registered providers of social housing, also known as housing associations, need to follow for their own tenancy policies.
The aim of this activity was to give everyone a chance to provide their views on the objectives of the Tenancy Strategy and preference for tenure types, for example introductory tenancies and secure tenancies.
You said
In total 90 responses were received.
Overall the majority of respondents agreed with the new Tenancy Strategy particularly with the 2 key questions in the survey:
- 92% of respondents agreed with the key objectives of the Tenancy Strategy. 2% neither agreed or disagreed. Of those that disagreed (6%), comments concerned matters not related to tenure.
- 67% of respondents agreed with the Council’s preference for the Council and Registered Providers to offer new social housing tenants a 12 month introductory or starter tenancy that converts to a lifetime tenancy once the introductory period is over and that Fixed term tenancies should only be used in exceptional circumstances (14% neither agreed or disagreed). Of those that disagreed, comments included suggestions on shorter term tenancies (6), tenancy management tools (2), further clarity for new and existing tenants. Others (3) did not answer the question or could not be considered as did not refer to this consultation.
We did
The findings from the consultation show a strong support for the proposed new Tenancy Strategy. We considered all the responses to identify what changes were needed and amended the strategy accordingly.
The Tenancy Strategy was amended to provide further clarity in relation to the introductory period for new tenants and existing tenants who already hold a secure or assured tenancy.
The final strategy was adopted by Cabinet Tuesday 8th October 2024, see Agenda item 6 Tenancy Strategy, Cabinet decision.