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Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. Throughout its existence, the council was based in Dorchester. Bournemouth and Poole were made independent from the county council in 1997 when their councils became unitary authorities.
Dorset Council is responsible for most of the local government services such as planning decisions and building control, local roads, council housing, markets and fairs, environmental health, refuse collection and recycling, education, social services, public transport, police and fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and strategic ...
Christchurch CC: 71,598 7,455 Christopher Chope† Mike Cox¤ Mid Dorset and North Poole CC: 74,305 1,352 Vikki Slade¤ Michael Tomlinson† North Dorset CC: 72,109 1,589 Simon Hoare† Gary Jackson¤ Poole BC: 72,162 18 Neil Duncan-Jordan‡ Robert Syms† South Dorset CC: 76,640 1,048 Lloyd Hatton‡ Richard Drax† West Dorset CC: 75,390 7,789
Prior to 2019, the non-metropolitan county of Dorset had a two-tier structure of local government, with Dorset County Council serving as the upper-tier authority, and the six district councils of Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset, and Weymouth and Portland serving as lower-tier authorities.
[3] [4] In 1856 the Wisconsin Legislature chartered the city of Madison, leaving the remainder as the town. [5] Most of this land was gradually incorporated into various municipalities, especially the City of Madison, leaving the town as a collection of discontinuous areas subject to annexation. For example, the Burr Oaks neighborhood had an ...
Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England. The village is situated on the mouth of the River Char , around 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2 km) north-east of Lyme Regis . Dorset County Council estimated that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,310. [ 1 ]
At the lower tier of local government, Chickerell is a civil parish.Its parish council is Chickerell Town Council, [3] which has ten councillors elected from two wards. [4]At the upper tier, Chickerell is in the Dorset unitary authority.
Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole .