Borough of Wellingborough

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.[1] These proposals were approved in April 2019. It will mean that the districts of Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire will be merged to form a new unitary authority called West Northamptonshire, whilst the second unitary authority North Northamptonshire will consist of Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough districts. These new authorities are due to come into being on 1 April 2021.[2] Elections for the new authorities were due to be held on 7 May 2020 but these were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

Concurrent with these changes, the currently unparished area of Wellingborough will be established as a civil parish and gain a new Town Council.[4]

Other than Wellingborough itself the borough includes:

• 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

The Borough Council have approved major building work to the East of the main town of Wellingborough as part of the government's 'Milton Keynes and South Midlands plan'. The area called 'Stanton Cross' will increase the size of the town by 30%.[5]

Bovis Homes and St. Modwen teamed up to deliver Stanton Cross, the proposed flagship industrial logistics park and residential development of approximately 3,750 homes, with schools, shops, surgeries and recreational spaces.

ECL Civil Engineering was appointed by Bovis to provide access and roadworks under an S278 agreement and infrastructure to facilitate the development.