West Northamptonshire Council is committed to working with town and parish councils. The Community Safety and Engagement service operates a parish liaison function to help parish clerks gain timely responses to enquiries submitted to our council. The function was introduced following a series of recommendations put to the Executive Leadership Team in October 2022. The parish liaison officer can be contacted by email to [email protected].
Services are encouraged to maintain good working relationships with parish clerks and engage with them early around issues and initiatives that may be of interest to the parish.
This page has been developed to provide clerks with a single place to access West Northamptonshire Council and its services.
Contact us
To contact various departments see our contact us page.
Organisational structure
See our organisational structure
Electoral services
Our electoral services team provides resources you might require for local elections, including a timetable of activity.
Licensing applications
The Public Register provides details of current licensing applications.
Councillors Code of Conduct
For issues relating to code of conduct, please contact the monitoring officer at [email protected] to initiate a complaint about a councillor.
You can also view the register of interests for your councillors by clicking on your relevant council.
Highways
Highways issues can be reported on Fix My Street.
For information about the adoption of roads, please contact [email protected]
To contact the Highways team, please email [email protected]. This inbox is continually monitored.
The Regulation Team gives permission for planters, bins, benches and planting, on land adjacent to highways.
For all of these you will have to provide:
- a plan of the area marked to show location
- design of whatever they want to install
- a copy of agreement to maintain
- a copy of public liability
- a copy of adjacent landowner’s agreement
- if planting/trees we need to know what species
Please send details to [email protected].
Planning
The West Northamptonshire Planning Register holds all planning applications since 1974.
For enquiries relating to Section 106, please email [email protected].
For enquiries relating to Community Infrastructure Levy, please email [email protected].
Below is a list of useful links relating to the planning service:
- All Planning and Building Control Services
- Planning Committee Meetings
- View or comment on a Planning Application
- Advice on Planning Permission
- Reporting a breach of Planning
West Northamptonshire Council Planning and Building Control Webpages
- Planning department
- Building Control
- Ecology, Trees, and Landscape
- Planning applications and enforcement
- Planning Policy
- Minerals and Waste Planning
- Heritage and Conservation
- Town greens, village greens and common land
- Local plan
For general planning advice on minor matters relating to planning applications and householder development proposals please use our: PLANNING PORTAL (external website)
If site specific information is required, then the Council would encourage the use of its pre-application service: PRE-APPLICATION SERVICE
Email Addresses
General Planning queries and Development Management: [email protected]
Local Plan: [email protected]
Planning Policy: [email protected]
Enforcement: [email protected]
Community Infrastructure Levy: [email protected]
Neighbourhood Planning: [email protected]
Heritage and Conservation: [email protected]
Ecology, Trees and Landscape: [email protected]
Street naming and Numbering: [email protected]
Mapping
- West Northamptonshire interactive mapping
- Parish Online is a subscription-based mapping tool designed specifically for parish councils
Assets of Community Value
Information on Assets of Community Value including the nomination process and the Assets of Community Value register.
Customer Services outreach events
West Northamptonshire Customer Services team are available at regular drop-in sessions in libraries and other locations across West Northants. Find out if there is a drop-in session near you.
Emergency planning
If you need to contact emergency planning, please email [email protected] or go to our emergency planning page for more information
Waste management page
For any issues relating to Waste please see our the Bins, Recycling and Waste pages.
Litter reporting
Report a need for street sweeping.
Public Spaces Protection Order
There are a number of Public Spaces Protection Orders in place across West Northamptonshire including one for Dog Control and the Prohibition of Smoking in specific open spaces. Find out more Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs).
Generic email addresses
As described in the engagement protocol, clerks are encouraged to use the self-service options that can be accessed through the contact us page. If there is no response through this, the following email addresses can be used.
- Highways - [email protected]
- Estates - [email protected]
- Waste
- former Daventry District area - [email protected]
- former South Northamptonshire area - [email protected]
- former Northampton area - [email protected]
For any issues relating to household recycling centres - [email protected]
We have also developed a wellbeing guidance toolkit for parish councils.
We have put together guidance on engaging with parish councils for your use.