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The town of Middlesbrough had been incorporated as a municipal borough in 1853. [6] When elected county councils were established in 1889 it was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it was made a county borough, independent from the new North Riding County Council, whilst remaining part of the North Riding of Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes.
In 2001, as part of a wider programme of devolution, voters in Middlesbrough were offered a referendum to decide between a directly elected mayor or the cabinet system then in operation, with the traditional civic and ceremonial functions of the Mayors being transferred to the Chair of Middlesbrough Council, which they did so by a large margin ...
The major concerns voiced were around a loss of planning powers for the council, the transfer of council assets to the new entity, and a 'lack of expertise' on the board. [6] The proposed council assets for transfer to the MDC include: [7] Middlehaven – including brownfield sites, Middlesbrough Dock, and surrounding land of around 40 acres
The holiday will likely delay your regularly scheduled pickup for trash, recycling or yard waste, though some towns will collect earlier in the week. Trash pickups change for Thanksgiving holiday ...
The Council of the Isles of Scilly is a sui generis single-tier authority, created in 1890 and since 1930 has held the "powers, duties and liabilities" of a county council. [69] It thus does not fit the narrower definition of unitary authority as those authorities created under the Local Government Act 1992 .
The current building was commissioned to replace an Old Town Hall in the Market Place in the St Hilda's part of the town. [2] [3] [4] After population growth, largely associated with the steel industry, Middlesbrough became a municipal borough in 1853 and civic leaders decided to procure a new town hall on open land in a developing area to the south of the Middlesbrough branch of the Stockton ...
In 1801 Middlesbrough was a small farming township with a population of just 25. From 1829 onwards it experienced rapid growth. In 1828 the influential Quaker banker, coal-mine owner and Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) shareholder Joseph Pease sailed up the River Tees to find a suitable new site downriver of Stockton on which to place new coal staithes.
The old town hall continued to be used as a public library and as a community events venue for the St Hilda's estate until it was closed by Middlesbrough Council in 1996. [6] Despite a local campaign to retain the estate, [ 7 ] most of the 1970s housing was demolished as part of a regeneration project in the early years of the 21st century ...