Central Bedfordshire Council is funding the new leisure facility in Leighton Buzzard.
Outreach workers offer essential supplies to cope with the heat and a temporary bed for the night.
Independents and local residents' parties enjoy growing political influence in the East of England.
Quest Park wants to build one of the largest data centres in the UK next to the Universal site.
Plans have been submitted for a GP surgery in a town which has been without one since 2009.
One contractor says rising costs associated with the fires could be passed on to taxpayers.
A motorist who took a council to court over pothole repairs is taking on another legal challenge.
The new building has 185 solar panels, triple glazing and windows are shielded from direct sunlight.
Former senior housing officer Kanyin Jolaosho is given a suspended jail sentence.
