South Northamptonshire District | |
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 Shown withinNorthamptonshire | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Administrative county | Northamptonshire |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Admin. HQ | Towcester |
| Government | |
| • Type | South Northamptonshire District Council |
| • Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| • Executive: | |
| Area | |
• Total | 244.80 sq mi (634.02 km2) |
| Population (2019) | |
• Total | 94,490 |
| • Density | 386.0/sq mi (149.0/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (British Summer Time) |
| ONS code | 34UG (ONS) E07000155 (GSS) |
| Ethnicity | 98.4% White |
| Website | southnorthants.gov.uk |
South Northamptonshire was alocal government district inNorthamptonshire,England, from 1974 to 2021. Its council was based in the town ofTowcester, first established as a settlement inRoman Britain. The population of the Local Authority District Council in 2011 was 85,189.[1]
The largest town in the district wasBrackley, which had a population of 14,000 in 2008,[2] followed by Towcester, which had a population of nearly 10,000.[2] Other significant settlements in size includedDeanshanger,Bugbrooke,Roade,King's Sutton,Silverstone andMiddleton Cheney. Many of the villages listed had populations exceeding 1,000.[n 1]
The northern half of the district was generally higher than the south, reaching 192mAOD[3] northeast of the centre ofAston-le-Walls, and 182m on the road east ofCulworth, a village which also rests on top of the ridge following the general WSW line of the county and of the district but except for this is north of the district. This ridge is part of theJurassic Way.[n 2] Lower parts are at 85mAOD (above mean sea level) in the southwest corner[n 3] and 50 m (160 ft) AOD in the northeast.[n 4]
The district was shaped approximately like the Christian cross in anENE orientation extending from its top at the southeast of Northampton and reaching to a north–south line south-by-southeast ofBanbury,Oxfordshire. An additional arm near its foot reached north through the large village ofChipping Warden to Upper Boddington.
Land was taken up with for the most part with arable agriculture peppered by villages, however allows space for two towns of significant size. Supporting this[4] is a regular interspersion of two high fertility types of soil for most plants and crops:freely draining slightly acid but base-rich; andlime-rich loamy and clayey soils with impeded drainage soils, on a default (generally slightly lower) soil ofslowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soils (of medium fertility). The district in terms of watercourses had sources and headwaters of the riversCherwell,Great Ouse andNene.[3]
Whittlewood Forest occupies a modest area for a forest and is broken up by fields (in the southern arm close toMilton Keynes which reaches to theGreat Ouse) and this surroundsWhittlebury, the fields south of the upland village ofPaulerspury on straight, RomanWatling Street which passes through the forest. This lies between Silverstone and Potterspury (also with aconservation area on Watling Street) or equally betweenDeanshanger andTowcester.
With just over 79,293 people in 2000[5] and 91,000 in 2008, a 14.8% increase.[2]
The growth in population between 2001 and 2007 was the third largest of all districts in the country and consisted of 35,700 households.[6]
The district was notable for the proportion of and growth indetached houses, and the district was one of a tiny proportion to have seen a growth in the proportion of this type of home relative to other types between 2001 and 2011.[7]
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under theLocal Government Act 1972, and was a merger of themunicipal borough of Brackley, along withBrackley Rural District,Towcester Rural District, and part ofNorthampton Rural District.
The council chose to based itself in Towcester. It was initially based itself atTowcester Town Hall, which had been built in 1865 and had been bought by Towcester Rural District Council in 1935.[8][9][10] The council moved to a new building at the junction of Springfields and Brackley Road in 1982, which in turn was replaced by another new building called The Forum on Moat Lane in 2015.[11]
In March 2018 at Northamptonshire County Council, following 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 twounitary authorities, one covering the West, and one the North of the county.[12] These proposals were approved in April 2019. It meant that the districts ofDaventry,Northampton and South Northamptonshire were merged to form a new unitary authority calledWest Northamptonshire, whilst the second unitary authorityNorth Northamptonshire consists ofCorby,East Northamptonshire,Kettering andWellingborough districts. These new authorities came into being on 1 April 2021.[13] Elections for the new authorities were due to be held on 7 May 2020, but were delayed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[14]
For a county-wide list for Northamptonshire seeList of places in Northamptonshire
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