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Wakefield Council, also known as the City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, is the local authority of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield has had a council since 1848, which has been reformed on several occasions. Since 1974 it has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local ...
The last school closed in 1957, and the building served as a hall for the chapel until 1996, when it was purchased by the Public Arts charity, which ran events at the venue. It later passed to Wakefield Council, and the charity moved out in 2015. [2] [3] The single-storey building is in the style of Robert Adam. Its central section is five bays ...
Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the greater Boston metropolitan area, [9] incorporated in 1812 and located about 12.5 mi (20.1 km) north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. [10] Wakefield offers an assortment of activities around the local lake, Lake ...
There were 22 of the 63 seats on Wakefield council up for election, being the usual third of the council plus a by-election in Normanton ward. Labour won 21 of the 22 seats available, maintaining their overall control on the council which they have held since the modern district's formation in 1974.
Wakefield Council wants to lease two additional properties to provide short-term emergency placements for up to six children. The authority said the number of children in care across the district ...
The West Yorkshire Act 1980 (c. xiv) was passed to amend existing local acts of Parliament in the West Yorkshire area, and to confer specific powers on West Yorkshire County Council, as well as the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, Kirklees Council, Leeds City Council and Wakefield Council.
A map of West Yorkshire, showing the Metropolitan Boroughs: (1) Leeds; (2) Wakefield; (3) Kirklees; (4) Calderdale; and (5) Bradford.. A civil parish is a subnational entity, forming the lowest unit of local government in England.
A decision was made, in 2004, to transfer the district's extensive council housing to Wakefield and District Housing (WDH), an 'independent' housing association, who would be more efficient with repairs and maintaining decent accommodation; as council housing represented almost 30% of the district, this was the second-largest stock transfer in ...