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The council has been a constituent member of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority since 2014. The members of Kirklees Council elect one member of the combined authority. Following several years of funding cuts from national government, in 2016 the council started transitioning to a different service model which the cabinet called being a New ...
Kirklees Council is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.Since the last boundary changes in 2004, the council has comprised 69 councillors representing 23 wards.
The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite. It is governed by Kirklees Council. Kirklees had a population of 422,500 in 2011; it is the third-largest metropolitan district in England by area, behind Doncaster and Leeds. [2]
The 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 alongside the West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] Prior to the local elections, four Labour councillors resigned from the party in protest of the party's direction and policy regarding the war in Gaza . [ 2 ]
The Thandi Partnership bought the public house on land leased from Kirklees Borough Council and applied for planning permission to renovate it. After breaching planning conditions, [7] the pub was demolished. Subsequent plans to rebuild it have been rejected. [8] [9]
The 2018 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council in England. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections in England. The result gave the Labour Party majority control of Kirklees Council with 36 of the 69 councillors representing the party. [2]
The coat of arms of Kirklees Borough Council. The coat of arms of Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council was granted on 24 June 1974. This was just a few months after the district of Kirklees was created as part of the new metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. It is rarely used by the Council who, until 2007, preferred to use a logo that is ...
The 2023 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council elections were held on 4 May 2023 alongside other elections across the United Kingdom. 24 out of the 69 seats on Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council were contested. The Labour party retained its majority on the council. [2] [3]