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The council is based at the Council Offices on Cecil Street in the centre of Margate. The building was originally designed in the early 1970s to be a new headquarters for Margate Borough Council, but by the time the building was finished in 1974 that council had been abolished and absorbed into the larger Thanet District Council.
The Conservative Party won control of Thanet District Council with a total of 31 seats, the Labour Party taking 23 seats. One Liberal Democrat candidate and one Independent candidate were elected. After the 30 October 2003 by-election the composition was: Conservative Party 30 seats, Labour Party 24 seats.
Local radio stations are BBC Radio Kent on 104.2 FM, Heart South on 95.9 FM and KMFM Thanet is a radio station on frequency 107.2FM, owned by the KM Group and previously known as TLR (Thanet Local Radio). [citation needed] Community radio station Academy FM (Thanet) launched in 2010 on 107.8. [citation needed]
This has included evidence on Community Budgets, [17] Local Enterprise Partnerships, Localisation of Council Tax, [18] Business Rates, Public Health, [19] Welfare Reform [20] and Private Rented Sector Housing. [21] The DCN also host a number of events each year on topics affecting District Councils such as public health and private sector housing.
The town became a municipal borough in 1857, [3] and following further population growth, largely associated with seaside tourism, the borough council decided to commission new municipal offices on the same site in the 1890s: this became possible because of a gift from Martha Hannah Kendal, widow of a former local corn merchant, Alderman Daniel ...
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Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.