A Nottinghamshire town council is making progress after a critical report found its reputation had been “stained” by years of controversy. Bingham Town Council faced a string of issues which led to some residents starting a petition requesting that Rushcliffe Borough Council take over the running of the authority.
An independent report said two councillors, Francis Purdue-Horan and John Stockwood, had breached Bingham Town Council’s member code of conduct and both were suspended from the Conservative party. Rushcliffe Borough Council set up an Improvement Board at the end of 2021 to review Bingham’s governance.
The resulting report concluded in May 2022 that some councillors’ “attitudes and behaviours are the overriding issue to the resolution of the problems”. Bingham Town Council was also given an action plan to work through.
