Sold for a loss: Another bad deal by the Mackintosh regime

Northampton Borough Council sold the bus depot for a £200,000 loss to Church's on the same day it bought it

By Sarah Ward

Former Northampton Borough Council Leader David Mackintosh. Pic Kirsty Edmonds

West Northamptonshire Council has revealed that its predecessor council did a property deal with shoe firm Church's that led to it shelling out more than £227,000 of taxpayer cash to help the private company.

The back-to-back deal in April 2014, in which the coun…