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Under section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972, the council of a district, county or London borough (or county borough in Wales) may change its name, providing the resolution to do so gains two-thirds of the votes at a special meeting. Until 1 April 1978, the council had to have the permission of the Secretary of State, but since that date ...
In this two-tier system, county councils are responsible for some local services, such as education, social services, and roads, while district councils run other services, such as waste collection, local planning, and council housing. The number of two-tier non-metropolitan districts (also known as shire districts) has varied over time ...
That meant that each area would be covered by two tiers of local authorities - both a county council and a district council, which would share local authority functions. [7] In May 2022, 21 non-metropolitan county councils and 164 non-metropolitan district councils remain. [7] These are better known as simply county councils and district councils.
In some places, responsibility for local services is shared between county councils, which manage areas including social care and education; and district councils, which cover smaller areas and ...
The unitary authorities of England are a type of local authority responsible for all local government services in an area. They combine the functions of a non-metropolitan county council and a non-metropolitan district council, which elsewhere in England provide two tiers of local government.
District Council (Second), a former functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong; One of the District Councils of India; One of the Districts of New Zealand; One of the District Councils of Bangladesh; One of the District People's Congresses of the municipalities or prefectural-level cities of the People's ...
England's 317 local authorities are made up of: 32 London borough councils, 21 county councils and 164 district councils (two tiers of local government which share responsibility for the same physical area), 36 metropolitan district councils, 62 unitary authorities, and 2 sui generis authorities, the City of London Corporation and Council of ...
The city council can be elected either at-large or from single-member districts (Houston uses a two-layer single-member district structure), or a mixture of the two. Ballots are on a nonpartisan basis (though, generally, the political affiliation of the candidates is commonly known).