Worcester City Council
Worcester City Council is the local authority for Worcester, a non-metropolitan district with city status in Worcestershire, England. The council consists of 35 councillors, elected from 15 wards. History The city of Worcester was an ancient borough which had held city status from time immemorial. The city became a municipal borough in 1836. When elected county councils were established in 1889, the city of Worcester was considered large enough to run its own county-level services and so it became a county borough, independent from the surrounding Worcestershire County Council. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the city had its territory enlarged, gaining the parishes of Warndon and St Peter the Great County and becoming a non-metropolitan district, with Hereford and Worcester County Council providing county-level services. Hereford and Worcester was abolished in 1998, since when a re-established Worcestershire County Council has been the upper-tier authority for Worce ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2022 Worcester City Council Election
The 2022 Worcester City Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect councillors to Worcester City Council in England. Results summary Ward results Battenhall Bedwardine Cathedral Claines Gorse Hill Nunnery Rainbow Hill St. John St. Peter's Parish Warndon Parish North Warndon Parish South Warndon References {{Worcestershire elections Worcester 2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ... 2020s in Worcestershire ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Municipal Borough
Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in Scotland from 1833 to 1975 with the reform of royal burghs and creation of police burghs. England and Wales Municipal Corporations Act 1835 Boroughs had existed in England and Wales since mediæval times. By the late Middle Ages they had come under royal control, with corporations established by royal charter. These corporations were not popularly elected: characteristically they were self-selecting oligarchies, were nominated by tradesmen's guilds or were under the control of the lord of the manor. A Royal Commission was appointed in 1833 to investigate the various borough corporations in England and Wales. In all 263 towns were found to have some form of corporation created by charter or in existence time immemorial, by prescription. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Mayors Of Worcester
The Mayor of Worcester is the civic head of Worcester City Council. Every May one of the city Councillors is elected to serve as Mayor for a year. Another is elected as Deputy Mayor. The Mayor chairs meetings of the Full Council, represents the city at ceremonial occasions, welcomes international visitors and attends events organised by local people. List of mayors of Worcester ;Notable previous mayors *1623: John Haselock *1631: Thomas Chettle *1633: John Nash *1635: George Street *1646: Edward Elvines *1667: Thomas Street *1709: Richard Lane *1720: Joseph Weston (wine merchant) *1819: Elias Isaac (banker) * 1826: John Dent (Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1849) *1834: John Wheeley Lea (of Lea and Perrins) *1836-37 Christopher Henry Hebb *1837-38 George Allies *1838-39 Richard Evans *1839-40 Thomas Chalk *1840-41 C. Augustus Helm *1841-42 Edward Evans *1842-43 John Lilly *1843-44 William Lewis *1845-46 Edward Lloyd (died) *1846 W. Lewis (elected) *1846-47 Fredk. Thos. Elgie *1847 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leader Of The Council
In England, local authorities are required to adopt one of three types of executive arrangements, having either an "elected mayor and cabinet", a "leader and cabinet", or a "committee system". The type of arrangement used determines how decisions will be made within the council. In councils which use the elected mayor system, the mayor is directly elected by the electorate to provide political leadership for the council and has power to make executive decisions. In councils which use the leader and cabinet model (the most commonly used model), the elected councillors choose one of their number to be the "leader of the council", and that person provides political leadership and can make executive decisions. Where the committee system is used, executive power is exercised through various committees rather than being focussed on one person. Many councils which use the committee system still nominate one of the councillors to hold the title "leader of the council", albeit without the sa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hereford And Worcester
Hereford and Worcester was an English non-metropolitan county created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from the areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge and Warley, which became part of the West Midlands) and the county borough of Worcester. An aim of the Act was to increase efficiency of local government: the two counties are among England's smaller and less populous counties, particularly after the same Act transferred some of Worcestershire's most urbanised areas to the West Midlands. The county bordered Shropshire, Staffordshire and the West Midlands to the north, Warwickshire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south, and Gwent and Powys in Wales to the west. It was abolished in 1998 and reverted, with some transfers of territory, to the two separate historic counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Creation The Local Government Boundary Commission in 1948 proposed a mer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hereford And Worcester County Council
Hereford and Worcester County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Hereford and Worcester in west England. It came into its powers on 1 April 1974 and was abolished on 31 March 1998. The county council was based at County Hall in Worcester. It was replaced by Herefordshire Council and Worcestershire County Council. Political control The first elections to the council were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council from 1974 until its abolition in 2009 was held by the following parties: Leadership The leaders of the council included: Council elections * 1973 Hereford and Worcester County Council election * 1977 Hereford and Worcester County Council election * 1981 Hereford and Worcester County Council election * 1985 Hereford and Worcester County Council election * 1989 Hereford and Worcester County Council election * 1993 Hereford and Worce ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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St Peter The Great County
St Peter the Great or St Peter's is a suburb in the civil parish of St. Peter the Great County, in the city of Worcester, in the county of Worcestershire, England. It is south of the city centre, on the east side of the River Severn, near Junction 7 of the M5 motorway. In the 2011 census, the parish population was recorded as 5,851. Church and parish The parish is named after the Church of St Peter the Great (so named to distinguish it from the chapel of Worcester Castle, "St Peter the Less"), formerly located between King Street and Sidbury in Worcester, by the Royal Worcester porcelain factory (now the Museum of Royal Worcester). The medieval church was rebuilt in brick in the style of a Commissioners' church in 1836/37. This building became structurally unsafe, was closed in 1972, declared redundant in 1974 and demolished in 1976. The church site is now housing and a car park (2016). The church parish was joined with that of St Martin's Church, London Road, the combined pari ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Warndon
Warndon is a suburb and civil parish of the City of Worcester in Worcestershire, England. The parish, which includes the villages of Trotshill and Warndon was part of Droitwich Rural District until 1974 when it was annexed to Worcester under the Local Government Act 1972. It had a population of 10,237 in 2001. Warndon Villages Warndon Villages is a housing development based on "village" themes on the eastern side of Worcester, situated between Warndon and the M5 motorway. There are four distinct "villages" in the development, the Harleys, the Lyppards, the Berkeleys and the Meadows, each with their own subdivisions. The first village opened in 1996. Warndon Villages is home to Lyppard Grange Primary School, four nurseries, a Tesco Tesco plc () is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. In 2011 it was the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and the ninth-largest in th .. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant Acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Government of 1970–74. Its pattern of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan county and district councils remains in use today in large parts of England, although the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986, and both county and district councils have been replaced with unitary authorities in many areas since the 1990s. In Wales, too, the Act established a similar pattern of counties and districts, but these have since been entirely replaced with a system of unitary authorities. Elections were held to the new authorities in 1973, and they acted as "shadow authorities" until the handover date. Elections to county councils were held on 12 April, for metropolitan and Welsh districts on 10 May, and for non-metropolitan distri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Worcestershire County Council
Worcestershire County Council is the county council for the non-metropolitan county of Worcestershire in England. The most recent elections to it were in 2021. Worcestershire County Council has its headquarters at County Hall in Worcester, which was also the headquarters for the preceding Hereford and Worcester County Council. Worcestershire County Council was created in 1889; it was abolished in 1974 and replaced by Hereford and Worcester County Council, and was eventually recreated in 1998. It consists of 57 Councillors elected every four years, and is currently controlled by the Conservative Party. Governance Worcestershire County Council currently operates using a Leader and Cabinet system. The Council is currently composed of 57 councillors, the majority representing a single-member division. Elections are held every four years; the last in 2021. Cabinet Worcestershire County Council's cabinet is composed of nine Conservative councillors and the Conservative Lea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |