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Canterbury's city status was extended to cover the whole of the new borough. [11] In 1988 the position of mayor was given the honorific title of lord mayor. [12] The council continues to appoint a ceremonial sheriff; the sheriff no longer has any judicial functions, but the title is today taken by the deputy chair of the council. [13]
1983 Canterbury City Council election; 1987 Canterbury City Council election (City boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) [2] [3] 1991 Canterbury City Council election; 1995 Canterbury City Council election; 1999 Canterbury City Council election; 2003 Canterbury City Council election (New ward boundaries) [4 ...
The 2023 Canterbury City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Canterbury City Council in Kent, England. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections in England . The Conservatives held a majority on the council from 2005 until April 2023, less than a month before the election, when four Conservatives left the ...
The following former districts (or parts of) are unparished: Tunbridge Wells Municipal Borough, Tonbridge Urban District, Margate Municipal Borough, Sittingbourne and Milton Urban District, Queenborough-in-Sheppey, Municipal Borough of Rochester, Municipal Borough of Gillingham, Municipal Borough of Chatham, Maidstone Municipal Borough ...
Canterbury was granted a city charter in 1448 which gave it the right to have a mayor and a sheriff. The city's web site records that King Henry VI decreed that the City should be "of one Mayor and one commonalty, wholly corporate for ever". The first mayor elected under royal charter was John Lynde.
Canterbury Guildhall, formerly the Church of the Holy Cross, is a municipal building in St Peter's Place in Canterbury, Kent, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Canterbury City Council , is a Grade II* listed building .
The council was formed on 12 May 2016 from a merger of the City of Canterbury and the City of Bankstown, [3] after a review of local government areas by the NSW Government. The City of Canterbury Bankstown comprises an area of 110.8 square kilometres (42.8 sq mi) and as per the 2021 census , had a population of 371,006 making it the second most ...
The role survived the local government reorganisation of 1974, when a large number of other areas lost County Borough status and thus had their Sheriffs' posts abolished, and the Sheriff is still elected at the Annual Council Meeting in May. Canterbury City Council in 2002 merged the role of deputy Chairman of the Council into that of Sheriff ...