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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 .
Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
Bournemouth and Poole had both been unitary authorities since 1997, whilst Christchurch was a lower tier district council, with Dorset County Council providing county-level services in that borough. The way the changes were implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county both called Bournemouth ...
Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council .
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. Chickerell electoral ward elects 2 members to Dorset Council. [5] For elections to the UK Parliament, Chickerell is in the South Dorset parliamentary constituency.
Poundbury has two tiers of local government: the Dorchester civil parish and above that the Dorset unitary authority. The Dorchester Poundbury ward elects one member to Dorset Council, [37] and four of the 20 members of Dorchester's town council. [38] For elections to the House of Commons, Poundbury is part of the West Dorset constituency.
Dorset Council (UK) Dorset County Council; E. East Dorset District Council; N. North Dorset District Council; P. Poole Borough Council; W. West Dorset District Council;
Puddletown is part of the Puddletown and Lower Winterborne ward which elects 1 member to Dorset Council. [27] In the UK national parliament, Puddletown is within the West Dorset parliamentary constituency. Historically, Puddletown was in the Dorchester Rural District from 1894 to 1974, [28] and the West Dorset district from 1974