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Bridgend County Borough Council largely replaced Ogwr Borough Council, though St Brides Major, Ewenny and Wick were transferred from Ogwr to the Vale of Glamorgan. In November 2014 the council voted to propose a merger with the neighbouring Vale of Glamorgan Council , though this was rejected by the Welsh Government 's Public Services Minister ...
Since The County Borough of Bridgend (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998 (and from the 1999 county council elections) the county borough has been divided into 39 electoral wards electing 54 county councillors. [2] Six of these wards are coterminous with communities (civil parishes) of the same name. Some communities have their own elected council.
Bridgend County Borough (Welsh: Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. The county borough has a total population of 139,200 people, and contains the town of Bridgend , after which it is named.
Bridgend Central (Welsh: Canol Pen-y-bont) is an electoral ward in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. It covers part of the county town of Bridgend . The ward elects three councillors to Bridgend County Borough Council .
An East Sussex farming family said term-time January holidays gave them a chance to get away from the farm for quality time. Lucy Holt, 38, has twice been fined in the past for taking her children ...
Bridgend (English: / b r ɪ ˈ dʒ ɛ n d /; Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just Pen-y-bont, meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") [2] is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, 20 miles (32 km) west of Cardiff and 20 miles (32 km) east of Swansea.
The 2022 Bridgend County Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 as part of the 2022 Welsh local elections. Fifty one councillors were elected to Bridgend County Borough Council . Welsh Labour gained the council from no overall control .
The area is the southernmost part of the county of Glamorgan.Between the 11th century and 1536 the area was part of the Lordship of Glamorgan. In medieval times, the village of Cosmeston, near what is today Penarth in the south east of the county, grew up around a fortified manor house constructed sometime around the 12th century by the De Costentin family. [3]