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The Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council was the local authority for the Vale of Glamorgan in South Glamorgan, Wales, created in 1974 and reconstituted in 1996 as the Vale of Glamorgan Council unitary authority. [1] It was a second tier district authority, with South Glamorgan County Council providing county-level services to the area.
The new Vale of Glamorgan Council unitary authority came into effect on 1 April 1996, following the dissolution of South Glamorgan. It replaced the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council , which had been created in 1974 as a second-tier authority to South Glamorgan County Council .
The Vale of Glamorgan was a second tier district, part of the new county of South Glamorgan, [8] under the Local Government Act 1972. It created several problems in local governance, between the South Glamorgan County Council, Cardiff City Council and the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council owing to their conflicting
Court is a county electoral ward, electing two county councillors to Vale of Glamorgan Council. [5] On 4 May 2017, the Court ward elected two Labour Party county councillors to the County Council. Former councillor Richard Bertin came third.
Following the December 2007 decision by landlords, the Vale of Glamorgan Council not to renew the £65,000 per annum funding of the Barry Island Railway, the society maintained its services but subsequently the Council decided to put the railway site out to tender under a long-term lease.
These wards also elect county councillors to the Vale of Glamorgan Council. Only the mayor and deputy mayor receive any form of financial allowances. The issue was debated following the 2017 elections and the council agreed not to introduce wider remuneration to the rest of the council, which it was claimed would cost an additional £100,000. [5]
The new county of South Glamorgan was created covering the former county borough of Cardiff, (which had been independent from Glamorgan County Council), together with the southern parts of Glamorgan and the parish of St Mellons from Monmouthshire. South Glamorgan County Council came into existence on 1 April 1974. [1]
Vale of Glamorgan (Welsh: Bro Morgannwg) is a constituency of the Senedd.It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region ...