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From 1974 until 1986 the city council was a lower-tier district authority, with Tyne and Wear County Council providing county-level services. The county council was abolished in 1986, since when the city council has again provided both district-level and county-level services, as it had done when it was a county borough prior to 1974.
Newcastle Civic Centre is a municipal building in the Haymarket area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. [1] Designed by George Kenyon , [ 2 ] the centre was built for Newcastle City Council in 1967 and formally opened by King Olav V of Norway on 14 November 1968. [ 3 ]
The North East Combined Authority (NECA) is a combined authority in North East England.It has a directly-elected Mayor and seven member councils: two are unitary authorities (Durham and Northumberland) and five are metropolitan borough councils (Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland).
Newcastle City Council spent £22 million purchasing the building, and let it out to another firm, a company set up by the council with support services firm Carillion, on a 25-year lease. [19] [20] After Carillion's collapse in 2017, law firm Clifford Chance acquired the lease on Partnership House. [21]
In 2014 the Gosforth Customer Service Centre closed and the space is now occupied by part of Newcastle City Learning. [55] The new building will also incorporate 'public art' to give the centre an identity and a connection with the local area. The library is also used as a polling station. [56]
The 2024 Newcastle City Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, to elect members of Newcastle City Council in Tyne and Wear, England.It was held alongside the North East mayoral election, the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner election, and other local elections in the United Kingdom held on the same day.
From 1974 until 1986 the city council was a lower-tier district authority, with Tyne and Wear County Council providing county-level services. The county council was abolished in 1986, since when the city council has again provided both district-level and county-level services, as it had done when it was a county borough prior to 1974.
Byker is a district in the east of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.Home to the Byker Wall estate, made famous by TV series Byker Grove, Byker's population was recorded at 12,206 in the 2011 census. [1]