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Coventry City Council is the local authority for the city of Coventry in the West Midlands, England. Coventry has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city.
The new Council House was designed in the Elizabethan style, [5] as stipulated by the Borough Corporation, to be in keeping with the old St Mary's Guildhall to the rear. [4] The foundation stone was laid on 12 June 1913 and the building was completed in 1917, [ 6 ] although, because of the First World War , the official opening by the Duke of ...
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Trash and recycling collection will not be impacted by the Christmas holiday. The Yard Waste Center, though, will be closed Saturday Dec. 23 through Monday, Dec. 25.
In 1986, the West Midlands County Council was abolished and Coventry became administered as an effective unitary authority in its own right. Coventry is administered by Coventry City Council, controlled since 2010 by the Labour Party, and led since May 2016 by George Duggins. [107] The city is divided up into 18 Wards each with three councillors.
The council said on its website that it cost the authority £500,000 a year to run the current kerbside green bin collection service and it could no longer afford to provide it for free.
Finham is a civil parish and suburb of Coventry in the region of the West Midlands, England located on the border of the West Midlands county and Warwick District. It lies approximately 2.3 miles (4 km) south of Coventry city centre, 3.3 miles (5 km) north-east of the centre of Kenilworth and 7 miles (11 km) north-east of the centre of Warwick.
The chairman of a town or city council is called a mayor. [9] The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 introduced alternative names: a parish council can now choose to be called a community; village; or neighbourhood council. [11]