The Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) is the combined authority for the

Tees Valley Tees Valley is a mayoral combined authority and Local enterprise partnership area in northern England, around the River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley. The LEP was established in 2011 and the combined authority was established i ...

urban area in England consisting of the following five unitary authorities:

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, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and

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, covering a population of approximately 700,000 people. It was proposed that a combined authority be established by statutory instrument under the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. It is a strategic authority with powers over transport, economic development and regeneration. The Combined Authority was established on 1 April 2016, after Local Government Minister James Wharton MP signed the necessary Order. It was announced in October 2015 that voters in the region covered by the Authority would directly elect a Mayor in 2017.

History

The abolition of the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland in 1996 left the Tees Valley without a single authority covering the whole area, although some council functions continued to be provided jointly through Cleveland Police and the

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. A combined authority was proposed in 2014 and sixty-five per cent of more than 1,900 responses received during a seven-week long public consultation were in favour of a combined authority. A shadow combined authority was formed and chaired by Sue Jeffrey, Leader of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.

Membership

The authority consists of the five local authorities of Tees Valley as constituent members, the directly elected

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as the Chair, and the Chairman of the Tees Valley local enterprise partnership as an associate member. The membership of the combined authority is currently as follows:

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Tees Valley Unlimited LEP
{{Combined authorities Combined authorities Local government in County Durham Local government in North Yorkshire

History

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