MAY 2026
There was the Annual Meeting of the Parish Council and a Parish Council meeting at 8.00pm on Thursday 7th May 2026 in Wallington Village Hall.
The minutes, agendas and papers for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
Minutes and Papers for the Annual Meeting held on Thursday 7th May 2026 in Wallington Village Hall
This meeting was held in person and via Zoom for the first time as a trial to see if it was possible to hold Parish Council meetings both in person and over the internet.
Annual results and AGAR papers can be found in the ‘Finance’ tab above
APRIL 2026
The annual village assemblies were held in April 2026.
The minutes, agenda and papers for the meeting can be found by following the links below.
JANUARY 2026
There was a Parish Council meeting at 8.00pm on Thursday 22nd January 2026 in Wallington Village Hall.
The agenda and papers for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
The minutes and papers from the meeting can be found by following the link below.
NOVEMBER 2025
The Parish Council were made aware of a planning application for a second solar farm to the West of Cumberlow Green by Lightrock for a Solar Farm Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), ground mounted solar farm, associated infrastructure, access and landscaping.
North Hertfordshire District Council (NHDC) have received an application for a 99.9MW solar Farm to the land West of Cumberlow Farm adjacent to the A507. The proposed solar farm site is 187.3Ha (465 acres) adjacent to Munches Farm.
The Munches farm Lightrock solar farm is in addition to the RES Beane Valley solar planning application which is to the West of Cottered between Cottered and Cromer. The Beane Valley solar farm proposal is for a 49.9MW solar farm covering 85Ha (200 acres)
Both of these proposals put a huge area of natural farmland under jeopardy for future generations. There is an opposition group to both of these proposals and they have a very useful website that can be found here :
Beane Valley Solar Farm Opposition Group
Cumberlow Green Farm – Lightrock Solar Farm Opposition Group
Rushden and Wallington Parish Council have put in an objection to the planned Cumberlow Green Lightrock solar farm planning application. This objection can be found by following this link
Parishioners can make their own comments about the planning application itself. This can be found at the NHDC planning portal by following this link below and quoting this application number 25/01947/FP.
Maps of the proposed solar farm can be found below :
The Parish Council have been informed of the following Outline planning application submitted by North Herts Council (NHC) regarding the proposed development of 3,200 homes, 1 secondary, 2 primary schools, employment, waste, leisure infrastructure and a mixed use local centre to be built in and around Baldock. The planning department are inviting comments from the general public and the closing date for comments is 14th November 2025.
Consultations about this development have been held since 2017 with numerous public meetings in and around Baldock organised by the Baldock, Bygrave and Clothall Neighbourhood Plan Group which then fed into the NHDC local plan. These can be found at the following website https://www.north-herts.gov.uk/baldock-bygrave-and-clothall-neighbourhood-plan
More specific information about the development can be found on the NHDC website by following this link NHC “Growing Baldock Masterplan” and information about the planning application itself can be found at the NHDC planning portal at this link NHDC Planning Portal quoting this application number 25/02571/OP.
Comments are invited to be made on the NHDC planning website for which the closing date is 14th November 2025, however it is normal practice for comments submitted after this date to also be accepted.
Further details about this and many other local issues can be found on the Parish Council website at Rushden and Wallington Parish Council Website
The proposal covers the following map of the area but much more information can be found by following the links above :
ROAD CLOSURES
These are the current planned road closures for the Parish that could take place any time from the dates specified. Usually these notices are valid for a period of 18 months from when the application comes into force. Please see the attached notices and maps of the stretches of roads affected (marked in red on the map).
SEPTEMBER 2025
There was a Parish Council meeting at 8.00pm on Thursday 18th September 2025 in Rushden Village Hall.
The minutes and papers for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
The agenda for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
JULY AND AUGUST 2025
There was an Extraordinary Planning meeting of the Rushden and Wallington Parish Council held at 8.00pm on Tuesday 5th August 2025 in Rushden Village Hall.
The minutes for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
The agenda for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
New bin collection service starts on Monday 4th August 2025
North Herts and East Herts Councils are set to launch their new waste and recycling collection service on Monday, 4 August 2025.
The new service will offer residents more recycling options, change the frequency of collections, and introduce a more efficient and sustainable service for both districts.
Key changes to the service include:
- the addition of plastic bags and wrapping recycling in mixed recycling bins
- a new 240-litre blue-lidded bin specifically for cardboard and paper, replacing the lidless blue box. These bins will be delivered with instructions not to use them until the service starts after 4 August.
- non-recyclable waste, mixed recycling, and cardboard and paper will be collected on an alternating three-weekly cycle (food waste collections will continue to take place weekly, and garden waste collections will continue to be fortnightly for those who subscribe)
- some residents’ bin collection days will change.
More information can be found by clicking here
Some flats and properties with communal waste bins will have collection day changes but will still follow a similar schedule to current arrangements.
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The annual meeting of the Parish Council and the May Parish Council meetings took place on Thursday 15th May 2025.
The agendas for the meetings can be found by following the link below.
APRIL 2025
The annual Parish Assembly meetings are due to take place on the following dates;
- Wallington on Tuesday 15th April 2025 from 8.00pm at Wallington Village Hall.
- Rushden on Wednesday 16th April 2025 from 8.00pm at Rushden Village Hall
The agendas for the meetings can be found by following the respective links below.
Minutes of the Wallington Parish Assembly Meeting held on Tuesday 15th April 2025
Minutes of the Rushden Parish Assembly Meeting held on Wednesday 16th April 2025
Minutes of the meetings will be posted here in due course.
MARCH 2025
NOTICE OF ELECTION
ELECTION OF COUNTY COUNCILLORS
Elections will take place on Thursday 1st May 2025 for the election of County Councillors.
Please follow this link for the election notice for the May election
JANUARY 2025
There was a meeting of Rushden and Wallington Parish Council held at 8.00pm on Thursday 23rd January 2025 at Wallington Village Hall.
The agenda for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
Minutes of the meeting can be found by following the link below.
OCTOBER 2024
There was a meeting of Rushden and Wallington Parish Council held at 8.00pm on Thursday 19th September 2024 at Rushden Village Hall.
The agenda for the meeting can be found by following the link below.
Minutes of the meeting can be found in the link below.
At this meeting there was a presentation on Home Energy Advice by Tom Hogan, Energy Champion at Citizens Advice North Hertfordshire. In his presentation he covered topics such as :
- Solar Power and batteries
- Heat Pumps – Air Source and Ground Source
- Home Insulaition
- Energy Bills
- Energy Tariffs.
Useful information about Home Energy Solutions can be found by following the link below.
APRIL 2024
Shaw Green Woodland Trust and Forestry Commission sponsored ‘Rose and Lion Wood’ woodland planting scheme.
The project, which is to be known as Rose and Lion Wood, consists of planting circa 25,000 deciduous native trees over 18 hectares in a scheme which has been developed by the Woodland Trust and is supported and funded by the Forestry Commission.
Nick Stainthorpe of Bee Field Projects Limited purchased the land from Shaw Green Farm in 2022 and is about to embark on a large scale tree planting scheme for the field around Shaw Green and Mill End. In the links below there are plans of the scheme he is undertaking.
Works are about to start with the first works being improvements to the field access by making it more level and firm so that can vehicles can be brought in to assist with planting, fencing and related tasks and the locating of a temporary container and a new shed as already consented for tools and implements whilst works are underway. The field will be fenced against deer to enable the trees to grow without being grazed with a view to planting beginning in Autumn 2024.
Click here to view the latest detailed wood design map for ‘Rose and Lion’ Wood
Click here to view the site appraisal plan for the ‘Rose and Lion’ Wood
Click here to see key site appraisal photographs of the proposed wood
Click here to see where the photographs for the key site appraisal were taken
Click here to see the proposed mix of species to be introduced to the ‘Rose and Lion’ Wood
FEBRUARY 2024
We have been asked to share with the Parish news about a food distribution service open in Baldock. This will provide free food to people in Baldock and the surrounding areas.
It is open from 10.30-11.30am every Thursday morning at St. Mary’s Church Hall in Baldock and the food is free to all. In the words of Kaotic Angles, the organisers there is “no means testing, no judgement”.
You can read here the article that appeared in On Our Doorstep magazine in the January edition.
They also have a poster that they have asked be displayed throughout the Parish on notice boards, in windows and any other prominent place that people will be able to see it. The Kaotic Angels foodbank poster can be found here.