Greater Nottingham or Southwest Nottinghamshire is expected to be a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. It was planned to be formed on 1 April 2028 and the first elections was planned to take place in May 2027. It will cover most of the Nottingham Urban Area and some adjacent countryside and villages. The area has a population of 612,557 (2023 ONS estimate).
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. Plans to create it were halted in September 2026 and the 2027 election was cancelled.
Geography
It will cover most of the Nottingham Urban Area including Nottingham, Arnold, Beeston, West Bridgford, Carlton, Kimberley, and Ruddington. It will also include the smaller settlements of Radcliffe on Trent, Keyworth and East Leake and various outlying villages. Some of the conurbation will not be covered, including Hucknall which is to be part of the Nottinghamshire unitary, and Long Eaton, which is over the border in Derbyshire and will become part of the Southern Derbyshire unitary.
In September 2026, the Nottinghamshire proposals were halted by the government and placed under review. The 2027 election was cancelled.
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:
Awsworth Barton in Fabis Bradmore Bunny Burton Joyce Clipston Colwick Cossall Costock Cotgrave East Leake Fairham 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. 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. Hucknall is in the Ashfield District, which was not included in any of these three proposals.
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