Greater Nottingham
Future unitary authority area in England
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Greater Nottingham[1] or Southwest Nottinghamshire will be a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. It is planned to be formed on 1 April 2028 and the first elections will take place in May 2027.[2] It will cover most of the Nottingham Urban Area and some adjacent countryside and villages.[3] The area has a population of 612,557 (2023 ONS estimate).[3]
Greater Nottingham | |
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Future unitary authority area | |
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| Coordinates: 52.9564°N 1.1506°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Country | England |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Shire county | Nottinghamshire |
| Combined authority | the East Midlands |
| Incorporated | 1 April 2028 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Unitary authority |
| • Body | Greater Nottingham Council |
| Area | |
• Total | 190 sq mi (500 km2) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 612,557 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
It will be formed from the existing unitary authority of Nottingham and portions of the two-tier Nottinghamshire districts of Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe. The remaining portions of those districts will form part of a Nottinghamshire unitary authority.[4]
Geography
It will cover most of the Nottingham Urban Area including Nottingham, Arnold, Beeston, West Bridgford, Carlton, Kimberley, and Ruddington.[3] It will also include the smaller settlements of Radcliffe on Trent, Keyworth and East Leake and various outlying villages.[3] Some of the conurbation will not be covered, including Hucknall which is to be part of the Nottinghamshire unitary,[5][6][7] and Long Eaton, which is over the border in Derbyshire and will become part of the Southern Derbyshire unitary.[8][9]
Parishes
Arnold, Carlton, Nottingham, West Bridgford and the Beeston area are currently unparished, the rest of the area is parished. The parishes in the district will be:[10]
- Awsworth
- Barton in Fabis
- Bradmore
- Bunny
- Burton Joyce
- Clipston
- Colwick
- Cossall
- Costock
- Cotgrave
- East Leake
- Fairham[a]
- Gamston
- Gotham
- Greasley (part)
- Holme Pierrepont
- Keyworth
- Kimberley
- Kingston on Soar
- Normanton on Soar
- Normanton-on-the-Wolds
- Nuthall
- Plumtree
- Radcliffe on Trent
- Ratcliffe on Soar
- Rempstone
- Ruddington
- Stanford on Soar
- Stanton-on-the-Wolds
- Stapleford
- Stoke Bardolph
- Sutton Bonnington
- Tollerton
- Thorpe in the Glebe
- Thrumpton
- Trowell
- West Leake
- Widmerpool
- Willoughby on the Wolds
- Wysall
Formation
Greater Nottingham is being formed as part of ongoing local government changes throughout England, in which all areas of the country that have separate county councils and district councils will see those replaced with single-tier, or unitary, local governance.[12] The two alternative proposals for two unitaries, one of which would have seen all of Broxtowe and either Rushcliffe or Gedling joined with Nottingham were not accepted.[13][14] Hucknall is in the Ashfield District, which was not included in any of these three proposals.[5][13]