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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.
The G postcode area, also known as the Glasgow postcode area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in central Scotland, within six post towns. These districts are primarily centered on Glasgow itself, and West Dunbartonshire (including Dumbarton, Clydebank and Alexandria), plus parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute (including Arrochar and Helensburgh), East Dunbartonshire, North ...
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.
Glasgow City Council has written to the owners of more than 2,500 vacant properties asking them to bring them back into use. The local authority said it currently had around 7,000 homeless ...
1 Atlantic Square is a high-rise office building located at Atlantic Square within the city of Glasgow, Scotland.It is currently the Scottish headquarters of HM Revenue and Customs and Second headquarters of the Cabinet Office, and is one of two buildings located at Atlantic Square, with the smaller 2 Atlantic Square, a 7-storey office building, situated next to the building.
Glasgow City Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007. Council elections [ edit ]
Southside Central (Ward 8) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. [2] On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed, the ward population decreased but it continued to return four members.
The new City Chambers initially housed Glasgow Town Council from 1888 to 1895, when that body was replaced by Glasgow Corporation. [9] It remained the corporation's headquarters until it was replaced by Glasgow District Council under the wider Strathclyde Regional Council in May 1975. [ 10 ]