1.
Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council
–
Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London, Barking and Dagenham is divided into 17 wards, each electing three councillors. At the May 2014 election, the Labour Party won all 51 seats, the council was created by the London Government Act 1963 as the Barking London Borough Council and replaced two local authorities, Barking Borough Council and Dagenham Borough Council. The council was renamed on 1 January 1980, the next election to the authority will be in 2018. There have previously been a number of authorities responsible for the Barking. The current local authority was first elected in 1964, a year before coming into its powers. Barking replaced Barking Borough Council and Dagenham Borough Council, as Barking had urbanised first, it was governed by a local board of health from 1882, which became an urban district council in 1894. The parish of Dagenham was under administration until 1926, governed by Dagenham Parish Council. It was envisaged through the London Government Act 1963 that Barking as a London local authority would share power with the Greater London Council, as an outer London borough council it has been an education authority since 1965. The local authority derives its powers and functions from the London Government Act 1963, Barking and Dagenham has the powers and functions of a London borough council. It is an authority collecting Council Tax and business rates, it processes local planning applications, it is responsible for housing, waste collection. It is an education authority, responsible for social services, libraries. The council shares responsibility with the Greater London Authority for strategic policies including housing, planning, the planning function for large developments is exercised by the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation in the London Riverside designated area that is within the borough. The council has been controlled by the Labour Party since it was first elected in 1964
2.
Barnet London Borough Council
–
Barnet London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Barnet in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 within London, Barnet is divided into 21 wards, each electing three councillors. The next election to the authority will be in 2018, there have previously been a number of local authorities responsible for the Barnet area. The current local authority was first elected in 1964, a year before coming into its powers. Barnet replaced Barnet Urban District Council, East Barnet Urban District Council, Friern Barnet Urban District Council, Finchley Borough Council and it was envisaged through the London Government Act 1963 that Barnet as a London local authority would share power with the Greater London Council. As an outer London borough council it has been an education authority since 1965 and this arrangement lasted until 1986 when Barnet London Borough Council gained responsibility for some services that had been provided by the Greater London Council, such as waste disposal. The local authority derives its powers and functions from the London Government Act 1963, Barnet has the powers and functions of a London borough council. It is an authority collecting Council Tax and business rates, it processes local planning applications, it is responsible for housing, waste collection. It is an education authority, responsible for social services, libraries. The council shares responsibility with the Greater London Authority for strategic policies including housing, planning, in 2012 Barnet outsourced many functions to Capita under the controversial One Barnet programme. Electrical items larger than 51 cm x 52 cm can be recycled at the Civic Amenity and Recycling Centre, Summers Lane, North Finchley and they collect over 40 different household materials for recycling at the centre and recycle around 68 per cent of it
3.
Bath and North East Somerset Council
–
Bath and North East Somerset Council is the local council for the district of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England. It is an authority, with the powers and functions of a non-metropolitan county. The council consists of 65 councillors,32 from Bath,6 each from the Norton Radstock and Keynsham areas, the area that would become Bath and North East Somerset became part of Avon when that non-metropolitan county was created in 1974. The authority covers the areas of the non-metropolitan districts of Wansdyke. Before the Reform Act of 1832 Bath elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons, Bath now has a single parliamentary constituency, with Conservative Ben Howlett as Member of Parliament. The rest of the area falls within the North East Somerset constituency, previously most of the area was in the Wansdyke constituency, which covers the part of Bath and North East Somerset that is not in the Bath constituency. It also contained four wards or parts of wards from South Gloucestershire Council and it was named after the former Wansdyke district. In 1999 the council housing in the area was transferred to the charitable Somer Community Housing Trust, following a successful petition, a referendum was held in 2016 proposing a directly elected mayor for the Bath and North East Somerset district. The proposal was rejected by 78. 1% of voters, from the creation of the authority in 1995, no political party had overall control of the council until 2015. The Liberal Democrats quickly became the dominant party, but in the 2007 local elections the Conservative Party won 31 seats becoming the largest party, the number of councillors by party was, Bath and North East Somerset local elections Healthcare in Somerset Official website
4.
Bexley London Borough Council
–
Bexley London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Bexley in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London, since May 2014 the council comprises 45 Conservative Party,15 Labour Party and 3 Ukip members. It was envisaged through the London Government Act 1963 that Bexley as a London local authority would share power with the Greater London Council, as an outer London borough council it has been an education authority since 1965. This arrangement lasted until 1986 when Bexley London Borough Council gained responsibility for services that had been provided by the Greater London Council. The local authority derives its powers and functions from the London Government Act 1963, Bexley has the powers and functions of a London borough council. It is an authority collecting Council Tax and business rates, it processes local planning applications, it is responsible for housing, waste collection. It is an education authority, responsible for social services, libraries. The council shares responsibility with the Greater London Authority for strategic policies including housing, planning, since the first election to the council in 1964 political control of the council has been held by the following parties, London Borough of Bexley website
5.
Birmingham City Council
–
Birmingham City Council is the local government body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974. The council headquarters are based at the Council House in the city centre, the council is responsible for running nearly all local services, with the exception of those run by joint boards. The provision of services has in recent years been devolved to several council constituencies. Sixteen Aldermen and 48 Councillors were elected and the Borough was divided into 13 wards, William Scholefield became the first Mayor and William Redfern was appointed as Town Clerk. It was not until 14 January 1889 that another Charter conferred the rank of City on Birmingham, on 9 November 1891, the districts of Balsall Heath, Harborne, Saltley and Little Bromwich were absorbed into the City. The dignity of a Lord Mayor was conferred in 1896 and Sir James Smith Kt was appointed as the Citys first Lord Mayor on 3 June 1896. Such was the expansion involved that the Council Chamber, originally designed to accommodate 80 members, had to be modified to seat the representatives of the new wards, further additions occurred on 1 April 1928 and 1 April 1931. By 1972, there were 39 Wards each represented by an Alderman and 3 Councillors, on 1 July 1986, the title was changed to Birmingham City Council. Part of Bromsgrove District known as Frankley and Kitwell Estates were added to the City on 1 April 1995, a review of the Ward boundaries on 10 June 2004 resulted in an increase from 39 Wards to 40 Wards. The first woman elected to the council, on 1 November 1911, was Ellen Pinsent and she represented the Edgbaston Ward as a Liberal Unionist. She had earlier been co-opted as a member of the councils Education Committee and she stood down from the council in October 1913 upon appointment as Commissioner for the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency. Pinsents time on the council overlapped with that of Margaret Frances Pugh, birminghams third woman councillor, Clara Martineau, was elected on 14 October 1913 in the Edgbaston ward, and served until 1932, when she died, aged 57. Her father was former Mayor Sir Thomas Martineau, Lord Mayor Ernest Martineau was her brother, mary E. Cottrell became the first female Labour councillor in February 1917, when she was elected unopposed to the Selly Oak ward. The first female Lord Mayor, Marjorie Brown, held the post from 1973 to 1974, Theresa Stewart became the first female leader in October 1993, until 1999, and Lin Homer the first chief executive, was in post from 2002 until 2005. The council was run by a Labour administration between 1984 and 2004, with Sir Dick Knowles as Council Leader from 1984 to 1993, followed in turn by Theresa Stewart, and Sir Albert Bore. They lost overall control in 2003 but continued to run the council as a minority administration for the following year, at the election of 10 June 2004, the 121 seats were divided between the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups then formed a governing coalition, in 2005, Richard Mawrey QC ruled invalid Birmingham City Council elections in two wards, Aston and Bordesley Green, held the year before, and required re-votes. He blamed most of the fraud on absentee ballot manipulation
