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The LHA system is a form of housing benefit administered, along with council tax benefit, by the local authority in whose area the property being rented lies. For those areas where there is two-tier local government Housing Benefit is administered by the district or borough council layer of local government.
Housing Benefit is a means-tested social security benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the second biggest item in the Department for Work and Pensions ' budget after the state pension, totalling £23.8 billion in 2013–14.
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council elections (40 P) Pages in category "Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Greater Manchester Council was abolished in 1986, after which Bolton became a unitary authority, providing all local government services. Bolton Council unsuccessfully petitioned Elizabeth II for the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton to be granted city status in 1992 (the Queen's 40th year as monarch), in 2000 (for the Millennium celebrations ...
The Council Chamber, Bolton Town Hall. The original building on a rectangular plan is designed in the neoclassical style in the form of a temple with a tall baroque -style clocktower. The town hall has a high basement storey and two principal floors above in sandstone ashlar which is rusticated at basement level.
[11] [12] As a County Borough, Bolton was independent of the administration of Lancashire County Council, although it remained part of the county for judicial, shrievalty and lieutenancy purposes. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 , the County Borough of Bolton was abolished and its territory transferred to Greater Manchester to form ...
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time. Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, generally known as Bolton Council , is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester , England.
The two areas were reunited in 2004 as Tonge with The Haulgh, one of the twenty electoral wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester. [13] It elects three councillors to Bolton Council using the first past the post electoral method, electing one councillor every year without election on the fourth. The ward population at ...