Other Public Services
Buckby Library & Hub, Station Road, Long Buckby, NN6 7QB
Tel 01327 842591
Closed Sunday and Monday
Tuesday 10am till 1pm & 2pm till 4:30pm
Wednesday 2pm till 4pm
Thursday 10am till 1pm & 2pm till 4:30pm
Friday 10am till 1pm & 2pm till 4:30pm
Saturday 10am till 12:30pm
Services
Books for leisure and information, for adults and children
Books on CD hire and book request service
Public computer access, free on Fridays, and free Wifi
E-library – free online book, audiobook, music and magazine hire
Monthly Reading Groups
Photocopying, Printing and laminating
Weekly activities for children under 5
Knit and Natter and Sewing groups
Social afternoons
Refreshments for library users
Long Buckby Library events are posted on Facebook
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Fire and Rescue
Long Buckby has its own fire station staffed by retained fire officers providing 24 hour cover. The station is in Station Road and the officer in charge is Warren Ellison. Anyone interested in joining, or with other non-urgent enquiries can contact him at the station on Thursday evenings (7.00 until 9.00). Tel. 01327 844660.
The Fire and Rescue Service headquarters number is 01604 797000.
Police
Long Buckby comes under the Western Area of Northamptonshire Police based at New Street, Daventry, NN11 3BS.
Long Buckby is covered by the Daventry Rural South Safer Community Team consist of a number of police constables and PCSO's. (See also the PCSO/Police section.)
If you need information or advice, have details about crime or criminals you would like to share with the Police, or if you would like to talk to the team about any local issue, please get in touch. You can contact them by email or telephone, or visit one of the Long Buckby Police surgeries.
Email: SCTDaventryRuralSouth@northants.police.uk
Telephone: 101 and ask for Daventry Rural South Safer Community Team.
Telephone number 999 should be used in an emergency only or if a crime is happening.
Wesr Northants Unitary Council
West Northants Unitary Council is responsible for a variety of services including housing allocation and housing benefits, leisure and tourism, environmental health, refuse collection, car parking and planning matters.
Other responsibilities include education provision, social services, libraries, highways, trading standards, youth provision and fire and rescue.
Housing management is now handled for the Council by Daventry District Housing, a private organisation.
The main offices are at:
Lodge Lane, Daventry, NN11 4FP
Tel. 01327 871100
Website
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Campaign to Protect Rural England - Northamptonshire
CPRE Northants campaigns to protect rural Northamptonshire, by engaging with the West Northants Development Corporation, local and regional planners and other bodies.
Contact:
CPRE Northamptonshire
P.O. Box 7939
Market Harborough
LE16 9XW
Tel. 01858 433136
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