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Swindon North is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Will Stone, a Labour politician. [n 2]Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was formally renamed from North Swindon to Swindon North, and first contested at the 2024 general election.
South Swindon parish was created with the official name of Central Swindon South, [1] but the parish council used the name and branding "South Swindon" from its creation. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In October 2023, Swindon Borough Council consented to formally change the name to South Swindon.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Wiltshire with Gloucestershire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of Chippenham.
For Westminster elections, the parish is part of the Swindon North constituency. [ 4 ] The parish was formed on 1 April 2017, when the parish of Blunsdon St Andrew was divided in two along the line of the A419 road: the west half became the new parish of St Andrews, and the east half was renamed Blunsdon .
The parish of Central Swindon North was created in 2017, [2] alongside Central Swindon South (later renamed to South Swindon). In 2022, the council opened a new accessible play park at Pinetrees Community Centre.
The former municipal borough was unparished. An Order effective April 2017 created the civil parishes of Central Swindon North and Central Swindon South, the boundary between them being the Great Western main line. [5] The parish council of the latter parish styled itself as Swindon South Parish Council, [6] and in 2023 officially changed its ...
Swindon Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Swindon in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1974 as Thamesdown Borough Council , and was a lower-tier district council until 1997.