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The building was commissioned to provide additional office accommodation for Leicester City Council which had been operating from Leicester Town Hall since 1876. [2] The site selected by civic leaders, on the west side of Charles Street, was occupied by a large number of small buildings.
The corporation was replaced in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, with the modern Leicester City Council, a non-metropolitan district council. This was a lower tier district-level authority, with county-level services being provided to the city by Leicestershire County Council for the first time.
Stonham was the care and support division of Home Group, through which the organisation works with almost 30,000 vulnerable people in 500 supported housing, justice and health services each year. Stonham joined Home Group in 1997 and became a full division in July 2004. [2]
Hanover Housing Association was formed in 1963 and was named after Hanover Gate, the West Gate into London's Regent's Park, where the first Board meetings of the Association were held. [1] The Association managed almost 19,000 mixed tenure Retirement and Extra Care properties on more than 600 estates. [3] [4]
The area previously consisted of small factories and slum housing - much of it back-to-back houses - and was redeveloped in the 1950s as council housing. The majority of the housing stock is local authority-owned. The area is isolated, with no adjacent residential areas and is cut off from the city centre by the dual-carriageway ring road.
Leicester City Council elections are held every four years. Leicester City Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Leicester in Leicestershire , England. Until 1 April 1997 it was a non-metropolitan district .
The symbol of Charnwood Borough Council is the fox, which is also the symbol used by Leicestershire County Council. Charnwood contains the village of Quorn , which gives its name to one of the country's oldest fox hunting packs, the Quorn Hunt , which was established in 1696 and moved to Quorn in 1753.
Ever since, HCA have been embroiled in a disagreement with the city council. [4] In July 2015, elected Mayor of Leicester Peter Soulsby signed an agreement to end funding to HCA in March 2016 due to a number of reasons, including lack of a business plan and the centre being "significantly under-used". [5]