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From its creation, the district was also given borough status, entitling the council to be known as Milton Keynes Borough Council and allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. [3] [4] From 1974 until 1997, the council was a lower-tier district authority, with county-level services provided by Buckinghamshire County Council.
In the February before the election Milton Keynes held a referendum on the level of council tax increase there would be and the corresponding changes in services that would be made. [3] [4] Voters on a 45% turnout chose the middle option of a 9.8% increase, which meant that council tax levels were not a major issue in the election campaign. [3] [4]
Below is the full seat composition in Milton Keynes after each local election. The normal election pattern is that one-third of seats are re-elected every year except that there is (normally) no election every fourth year. In 1976, 1996, 2002 and 2014, the whole council was elected after boundary changes.
The existing unitary authority of Milton Keynes was not affected; from 1 April 2020, therefore, the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire has been composed of two unitary authority areas. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In March 2018, an independent report commissioned by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, proposed structural ...
Following local government re-organisation in 1974, [3] the new Milton Keynes Borough Council initially operated out of the offices of the five councils it had replaced, although it relocated to Sherwood House (later known as Challenge House) in Bletchley in late 1974. [4] [5] The new borough council decided to commission dedicated civic offices.
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The City of Milton Keynes is a borough with city status, in Buckinghamshire, England. [3] It is the northernmost district of the South East England Region. The borough abuts Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and the remainder of Buckinghamshire. [a] The borough is administered by Milton Keynes City Council, a unitary authority.
The territory of the Council is about four-fifths of Buckinghamshire (the ceremonial county, which also includes the City of Milton Keynes) and has about two-thirds of its population. The county council had been established in 1889. The county was reformed in 1974, when it ceded Slough, Eton and nearby villages to Berkshire.