Why isn northampton a city

Northampton Saints, along with Northampton Town and Northamptonshire Cricket Club, are all top level sports clubs based in the town. Image source, Gareth Eales.

Labour's Gareth Eales said Northampton has lots to love whether it is a city or not. Published 2 June. Published 14 March But these grand projets have not been without controversy: Northampton Borough Council council was widely criticised for selling off a valuable Egyptian statue in to help fund an extension to its museum.

Mackintosh, who was elected Conservative MP for Northampton South in , was forced to stand down just before the election when police started investigating secret donations to his campaign from a developer involved in the Sixfields project, which has come to a suspicious halt. Such scandals have a distinctly small-town aftertaste. Northampton lost its House of Fraser department store in more downmarket Primark and Next outlets have taken its place.

Northampton badly needs to reconsolidate and attract new shops to its centre. The borough council needs to move on from the Sixfields scandal. Sticky pavements, not grand projets , need to be made a higher priority.

If the council feels parochial, it was designed that way — several outer suburbs like Moulton and Grange Park have spilled over outside the borough boundaries. At Angel Square, just behind County Hall, Northants county council has just built itself a new office block , which would make an ideal place to bang heads together. In the 60s Northampton had red double decker buses, just like London, and a contemporary view of Drapery looks at first glance like Haymarket or Oxford Street.

Northampton had trams until the s, when it was less than half its current size, and its modern suburbs are dense enough for a tram or light rail system to make perfect sense. But though a putative Northamptonshire Arc Transit network NAT produced a glossy document in , nothing has happened since. Whatever that character from Not Safe for Work says, Northampton is not a basket case.

But it badly needs to attract national institutions, or to develop one of its one. It needs to do something big and bold on the old Greyfriars site, not tinker at the edges.

Rather than brag about Next and Primark, it should aim to get Selfridges or John Lewis to come to town. And it needs to start fighting now for a big, bold 21 st -century tram system.

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As observed in article, requires a bold 25 Vision that makes it a vibrant centre again building on the new and welcome presence of the university downtown and able to enjoy and use its many current and future facilities.

You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. The moths around the outside circle are silk moths, representing the silk industry in Northampton, a short-lived Utopian community-based project in the s located in the Florence section of the city.

Members of the community were deeply concerned with racial and gender justice, and tried to create a self-sustaining community by raising silk worms as well as the trees that the worms preferred. As you look at the seal, you will also see the Holyoke Mountains in the background, and in the right top corner, the structure that looks like a castle represents the unique architecture of our City Hall. Along the bottom of the seal, you will notice scales, representing the scales of justice, since Northampton is the County Seat, and home to the County Courthouse.

You will also see a rake and hoe, reminders of Northampton's proud agricultural past - and present. The city is home to the oldest continuously running agricultural fair in the United States, held each September at the Three County Fairgrounds, and to two thriving Farmers Markets. Wifi good and intuitive to connect to. Lots of access to power points in room. Location of hotel good, very useful for an early train ride from Milton Keynes to London.

Communal areas in good order, all in all, left refreshed and happy. Easy to find on Google maps. Will visit again. Went here with a friend for a chill out.

Staff were really friendly and helpful. Close to the M1 but lovely and quiet. Rooms were lovely and clean. Ordered room service and this was brought up on time.

Well worth a visit. Close to other towns and not far from Silverstone. Please fill in the form and we'll get back to you as soon as we can with an answer to your enquiry.

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