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Gwynedd Council, which calls itself by its Welsh name Cyngor Gwynedd, is the governing body for the county of Gwynedd, one of the principal areas of Wales. The council administrates internally using the Welsh language .
The Council Offices (Welsh: Swyddfa'r Cyngor) is a municipal facility at Shirehall Street in Caernarfon, Wales. The structure, which is the headquarters of Gwynedd Council , is a Grade II listed building .
County of Gwynedd from 1974. This list of electoral wards in Gwynedd includes council wards which elect (or have elected) councillors to the local authorities in the county of Gwynedd, Wales. Gwynedd was created with the merger of Anglesey with Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire in 1974, led by Gwynedd County Council.
To prevent confusion, the Gwynedd Constabulary was therefore renamed the North Wales Police. The Snowdonia National Park was formed in 1951. After the 1974 local authority reorganisation, the park fell entirely within the boundaries of Gwynedd, and was run as a department of Gwynedd County Council.
Owain Williams is the leader of Llais Gwynedd, a regionalist political party in Gwynedd, north Wales, and councillor who previously represented the Clynnog Fawr ward for Gwynedd Council. He is a fervent nationalist committed to an independent Wales.
Bangor's council was created in 1883 by royal charter. In 1974 it became City of Bangor Council, after Bangor had been granted city status, though many of its previous powers were passed to Arfon Borough Council (1974–1996) [1] and the new Gwynedd Council, based in Caernarfon.
During the transition to the new system, the shadow authority requested a change of name from "Caernarfonshire and Meirionethshire" to "Gwynedd". The government confirmed the change with effect from 2 April 1996, one day after the new council came into being. [5] The Dwyfor area remains in use as an area committee of Gwynedd Council. [6]
Internally, the principal new room established was the council chamber, which featured a vaulted ceiling, on the first floor. [1] It continued to serve as the local municipal headquarters when Arfon District Council was formed in 1974, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Gwynedd Council was formed in 1996 ...