Northamptonshire council faces up to cost of effective bankruptcy

Authority likely to sell new £53m HQ and slash services despite being a model of Tory ideology

The clean steel and glass lines of One Angel Square were supposed to enshrine the modernising dynamism of its owners, Northamptonshire county council. Instead, the £53m headquarters are more likely to end up as a symbol of one of the biggest municipal failings of recent times.

Earlier this month, Northamptonshire went effectively bankrupt, becoming the first local authority in two decades to issue a section 114 notice. This signalled that its finances were so precarious it would be unlikely to balance the books this year and was at risk of being unable to set a legal budget for 2018-19.

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