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The council initially took responsibility for cemeteries, allotments and the mayoralty, and also the running of civic events like festivals, Remembrance Sunday and Armed Forces Day. In 2021 it launched two schemes for distributing
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to local community groups and charities, from an annual budget of £125,000. In 2022 it launched an additional grant scheme with a budget of £50,000, for environmental projects to help address
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in the Northampton urban area, ten were pre-existing, and two (Kingsthorpe and Far Cotton and Delapre) were created concurrently with the town council, these are:
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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
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and to ensure Northampton had a representative body, following the abolition of the former
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from the former borough council were transferred to the new town council.
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in England by population served. The council has its headquarters at
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As well as the Northampton Town Council area, there are 12 other
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At the first elections to the council on 7 May 2021, the
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Parish council

Northampton Guildhall
www.northamptontowncouncil.gov.uk
parish council
Northampton
largest parish level authority
Northampton Guildhall
charter trustees
Northampton Borough Council
unitary authority
West Northamptonshire
local government changes
Northamptonshire
coat of arms
grants
climate change
Labour Party
Conservative Party
Liberal Democrats
civil parishes
Billing
Duston
Collingtree
East Hunsbury
Far Cotton and Delapre
Great Houghton
Hardingstone
Hunsbury Meadows

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