Lutterell Ward
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Lutterell Ward is a Rushcliffe Borough Council ward located in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
Schools
Lutterell Ward has three schools:
Retail
Lutterell Ward has a place in British retail history as the location of the UK's first major out-of-town shopping development. In 1964, an American company called GEM opened a store on Loughborough Road. However, despite ambitious expansion plans, GEM's British operations were not a success, with only two other stores at Cross Gates, Leeds and Cliff Mill, Dundonald Street, Preston being opened. National concessionaires withdrew from the stores and, in 1966, the fledgling Asda superstore chain, whose then parent company was the Leeds, Yorkshire based dairy farming conglomerate, Associated Dairies, acquired a controlling interest in the GEM operations. The Loughborough Road site still has an Asda store, although it was replaced by a brand new and much larger store on land adjacent to the old site in 1999. The original building was demolished and is now part of the current Asda supercentre car park and petrol station area. (For a fuller history of the site and GEM, see Whysall (2005) in The International Review of Retail Distribution and Consumer Research, 15(2), 111–124). Asda West Bridgford is currently the largest shop in the ward.
Geography
The ward lies, primarily, on Wilford Hill.
The boundaries of the ward are shown on this map.
The adjoining wards are Trent Bridge Ward, Musters Ward, Compton Acres Ward and Ruddington Ward.
Lutterell Ward is home to the highest point in Nottinghamshire on the Trent's south bank. From this point you can see views of the Trent Valley as far as Newark-on-Trent.
Housing Developments
The South Nottingham College site was sold and demolished to make way for a housing development. The work is completed and the houses have been sold.
The South Notts Hussars public house[1] was demolished and a care home and houses were built in its place.
Sport
Helen Richardson-Walsh's first club was West Bridgford Hockey Club located in Lutterell Ward. She then continued playing hockey and got a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics.
Politics
Lutterell Ward returned two Labour Party (UK) candidates at the 2019 elections, Naseem Begum and Benjamin Gray.[2]