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Borough of Wellingborough

Former borough in England

Summary

Former borough in England

Field	Value
name	Borough of Wellingborough
type	Non-metropolitan district and borough
blank_emblem_type	Coat of Arms of the City Council
image_map	Wellingborough UK locator map.svg
map_caption	Shown within Northamptonshire
mapsize	frameless
subdivision_type	Sovereign state
subdivision_name	United Kingdom
subdivision_type1	Constituent country
subdivision_name1	England
subdivision_type2	Region
subdivision_name2	East Midlands
subdivision_type3	Ceremonial county
subdivision_name3	Northamptonshire
seat_type	Admin. HQ
seat	Wellingborough
government_type	Borough Council of Wellingborough
leader_title	Leadership:
leader_name	Alternative - Sec.31
leader_title1	Executive:
leader_name1
leader_title3	Leader of the Council
leader_name3	Cllr. Martin Griffiths (final)
established_title	Founded
area_total_km2
population_as_of	2019
population_total
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	Greenwich Mean Time
utc_offset	+0
timezone_DST	British Summer Time
utc_offset_DST	+1
postal_code_type	Postcode
postal_code
blank_name	ISO 3166-2
blank_info
blank1_name	ONS code
blank1_info	34UH (ONS)
E07000156 (GSS)
blank2_name	OS grid reference
blank2_info
blank3_name	NUTS 3
blank3_info
blank4_name	Ethnicity
blank4_info	90.8% White
4.5% S.Asian
2.5% Afro-Caribbean
website	wellingborough.gov.uk

E07000156 (GSS) 4.5% S.Asian 2.5% Afro-Caribbean

The Borough of Wellingborough was a non-metropolitan district and borough in Northamptonshire, England, from 1974 to 2021. It was named after Wellingborough, its main town, but also included surrounding rural areas.

The local council preferred to call itself the "Borough Council of Wellingborough" rather than the more usual form "Wellingborough Borough Council".

The borough covered almost the same area as the Wellingborough constituency. It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the borough of Wellingborough with Wellingborough Rural District.

The borough bordered the districts of South Northamptonshire, Northampton, Kettering, Daventry and East Northamptonshire, as well as Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, and Bedford in Bedfordshire.

Abolition and replacement

In March 2018, following suspension of the County Council arising from its becoming insolvent, due to financial and cultural mismanagement by the cabinet and officers, the then Secretary of State for Local Government, Sajid Javid, sent commissioner Max Caller into the council, who recommended the county council and all district and borough councils in the county be abolished, and replaced by two unitary authorities, one covering the West, and one the North of the county. These proposals were approved in April 2019. It meant that the districts of Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire were merged to form a new unitary authority called West Northamptonshire, whilst the second unitary authority North Northamptonshire consists of Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough districts. These new authorities came into being on 1 April 2021. Elections for the new authorities were due to be held on 7 May 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Concurrent with these changes, the unparished area of Wellingborough was established as a civil parish and gained a Town Council.

Settlements and parishes

Other than Wellingborough itself the borough included:

Bozeat
Earls Barton
Easton Maudit
Ecton
Finedon
Great Doddington
Great Harrowden
Grendon
Hardwick
Irchester
Isham
Little Harrowden,
Little Irchester
Mears Ashby
Orlingbury
Strixton
Sywell
Wilby
Wollaston

Political control

See Wellingborough Borough Council elections

Arms

References

(27 March 2018). "Northamptonshire County Council: statement".
(14 May 2019). "Northamptonshire: Unitary authorities plan approved". BBC News.
(14 February 2020). "AT LAST! Northamptonshire's new unitary councils are made law by parliament". Northampton Chronicle.
"Wellingborough Town Council information sessions". Borough Council of Wellingborough.
"East Midlands". Civic Heraldry of England.

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