Swadlincote and Surrounding Areas Community Governance Review


What is a Community Governance Review (CGR)?

Parish and town councils play an important role in local democracy and can help communities feel they are being represented on a local level. A public consultation took place from 31 October 2025 to 26 January 2026, giving residents the opportunity to suggest changes to parish boundaries and make them more reflective of the communities they serve.

Through this CGR, residents were able to give feedback and suggestions such as:

  • changing boundaries of existing parishes
  • creating new parishes
  • merging parishes
  • grouping parishes to work together.

South Derbyshire has a growing population and this will continue, so parishes need to be responsive and representative of the diverse needs of our communities.

Maps for each area are below:

If you would like more information about the community governance review, please take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions (docx, 98kb).

Please see the CGR Public Notice and Terms of Reference on the right hand column of this page.

The CGR covered the following unparished polling district areas:

  • Church Gresley (polling district areas known as CGA, CGB, CGC, & CGD)
  • Midway (polling district areas known as MWA, MWB & MWC)
  • Newhall (polling district areas known as NSA, NSB, NSC, NSD, NSE)
  • Swadlincote (polling district areas known as SWA, SWB, SWC, SWD, SWE, SWF)
  • Woodville (polling district known as WVE).

The CGR also considered the future governance arrangements for the parished area of Castle Gresley (the polling district known as LTA), which is currently represented by Castle Gresley Parish Council.

The results of this consultation were presented at a meeting of the Council on 26 February 2026. Members agreed that all above-mentioned districts of the urban unparished area would remain unparished and that polling district LTA would continue to be represented by the Castle Gresley Parish Council.

The number of responses required to continue to Stage Two of the review was 5%, however, the urban unparished areas only achieved a 1.37% response rate with 0.73% indicating their support for the creation of a parish council or councils to represent their area. The same number was needed to continue the review of polling district LTA, however, a 2.48% response rate was achieved, with 2.01% of local electors expressing their support for retaining the existing Parish Council. Therefore, the CGR will not be taken any further.