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House Building Behind Schedule

A 大象传媒 Radio Northampton investigation has found that house building in the county is behind schedule. Only about two-thirds of the houses that need to be built each year are being completed.

A 大象传媒 Radio Northampton investigation has found that house building in the county is behind schedule. Only about two-thirds of the houses that need to be built each year are being completed. Political reporter Willy Gilder went to Upton on the edge of Northampton, while reporter Carrol Weston is at Oakley Vale in Corby. Stuart talks to Andrew Longley, the Planning Manager for the North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit, to Steve Turner from the Home Builders Federation, and to Cheryl Bissett, the Sales and Marketing Director for Persimmon Homes East Midlands.

Plus:

* Improvements reduce the smell from Billing Sewage Works

* How Northants Highways Dept is coping with the snow

* Day care centre faces funding cut

* East Northants makes recycling progress

* Northamptonshire's "Stargazing" night

* 'Les Miserables' - filmed in Northants - is a Golden Globe winner

* The story of Wicksteed to feature on 大象传媒1's "Inside Out"

3 hours

Broadcast

  • Mon 14 Jan 2013 06:00

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