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Nottingham City Council would need to increase council tax by 46% or receive a 70% rise in government funding to continue operating as it has done, a new report states. Commissioners were ...
When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, Nottingham was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services and so it was made a county borough, independent from Nottinghamshire County Council. [5] Nottingham was awarded city status on 7 August 1897, allowing the corporation to call ...
The Council House Dome Council House dome during Nottingham Light Night 2012. The most striking visual element of the building, and in itself an iconic symbol of the city, is the dome. An ornate cupola stands on the apex of the dome. [1] The top of the cupola is 200 feet (61 m) above the Old Market Square below. [17]
When the county council was first created it met at the Shire Hall on High Pavement in Nottingham, a courthouse built in 1770 which had been the meeting place of the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. [23] The council moved to County Hall in 1954; construction had begun in 1939 but had been paused due to the Second World War.
The council is based in Arnold. The borough also includes Carlton along with villages and rural areas to the north-east of Nottingham. The main built-up part of the borough around Arnold and Carlton forms part of the Nottingham Urban Area. The neighbouring districts are Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, Rushcliffe and Nottingham.
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Boundary changes in April 1952 adjusted Nottingham's southern boundary in this area to follow the centre of the River Trent, transferring the County Hall site and other areas on the south bank of the Trent (including the nearby City Ground stadium of Nottingham Forest F.C.) to the neighbouring urban district of West Bridgford. [7]
Nottingham City Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. Until 1 April 1998 it was a non-metropolitan district . Since the last boundary changes in 2019, 55 councillors are elected from 20 wards .