John Jackon News Today

After firing its entire building department two years ago and outsourcing code enforcement, inspections and other tasks typically handled by city employees to McKenna Associates of Northville, Eastpointe is in the process of bringing that department back in house.

Haydon Wick flooding in 2007 Haydon Wick – originally small village distinct from Swindon – was part of the rapid post-war expansion of the town in the latter half of the 20th century. Now it is one of the town’s inner suburbs, with Priory Vale and Blunsdon St Andrew forming the outer boundary of the borough further north and west. It’s an area of modern family homes designed in the fashion of the late 20th century with lots of cul-de-sacs coming off curving primary roads. It ha...