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Glasgow City Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu) is the local government authority for Glasgow City council area, Scotland. In its modern form it was created in 1996. Glasgow was formerly governed by a corporation, also known as the town council, from the granting of its first burgh charter in the 1170s until 1975.
Langside (Ward 7) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. [2] On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned three council members, using the single transferable vote system. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election , the boundaries were changed, the ward increased in size and returned four members.
Susan Aitken (born November 1971) is a Scottish politician who has served as Leader of Glasgow City Council since 2017.A member of the Scottish National Party, she has been the leader of the SNP group on the council since 2014 and a councillor for the Langside ward since 2012.
The school buildings were completed in 1921, [2] although the school was founded a year earlier, in 1920. [3] Headmasters include Andrew Walker (1891–1974), who led Jordanhill College School from 1936 to 1956, having earlier served from 1921 to 1932 as a mathematics and science master and - initially - the only teacher in the new secondary ...
The Glasgow City Region (previously Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Region, [1] also known as Clydeside) is a somewhat urbanised city region in the western central belt of Scotland nestled in the Clyde Valley and consisting of the following eight councils: East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City Council, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, and West ...
The city council sits at the Glasgow City Chambers on George Square, built in the 1880s and one of the city landmarks. [2] A Glasgow Town Council operated under the historic county of Lanarkshire, with Glasgow serving as the capital of its 'lower ward'; it was originally based at the Glasgow Tolbooth at Glasgow Cross.
The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Glasgow is the convener of the Glasgow City Council. The Lord Provost serves both as the chair of the city council and as a figurehead for the entire city, and is elected by the city councillors from among its members at the council's first meeting. [ 1 ]
First elected as a Labour member of the Glasgow District Council in 1992, she was elected to the new Glasgow City Council to represent the Knightswood South ward in 1995. After having served as convener of the council's Art and Culture Committee from 1998 to 2003, she was unanimously elected by the city council to replace Alex Mosson as Lord ...