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Four members of staff in Leeds City Council's planning department have been arrested as part of a police investigation into suspected corruption, the BBC understands.
The modern city council was established in 1974, with the first elections being held in advance in 1973. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough Urban District, Horsforth Urban District, Otley Urban District, Garforth Urban District, Rothwell Urban ...
Morley town hall, one of the towns forming the borough Leeds Civic Hall on Millennium Square, meeting place of Leeds City Council. Leeds City Council is the local authority of the district. The council is composed of 99 councillors, three for each of the city's 33 wards. Elections are held three years out of four, on the first Thursday of May.
Headingley and Hyde Park is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the inner-city area of Hyde Park (traditionally known as Wrangthorn, the name still used by the Church of England) and suburb of Headingley to the north of the city centre. It was created in advance of the 2018 council election.
Beeston and Holbeck is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the inner city areas and urban suburbs of Beeston, Cottingley and Holbeck to the south of the city centre.
The first election to the reconstituted city council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its revised powers on 1 April 1974. West Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986 and Leeds became a unitary authority. Political control of the council since 1973 has been held by the following parties: [2] [3]
It was created in advance of the 2018 council election. Prior to the 2018 election, the predecessor ward most closely corresponding to Hunslet and Riverside was City and Hunslet ward, containing Leeds city centre since 2004. From 1980 to 2022, the councillors in these wards all belonged to the Labour Party.
The council announced that a total of 225 voters were turned away from the polls for a lack of ID and did not return. As per the election cycle, one third of the council's 99 seats were contested. The Labour Party maintained their majority control of the council, repeating the net gain of 3 seats they achieved in 2022 .