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Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county of Dorset, which also includes Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The council ...
Dorset County Council's responsibilities included schools, social care for the elderly and vulnerable, road maintenance, libraries and trading standards. The county council's area was also administered by six smaller authorities that have their own district or borough councils. The responsibilities of these councils included local planning ...
County Hall in Dorchester, headquarters of Dorset County Council. Dorset County Council was a non-metropolitan county in England. Elections were first held on 23 January 1889, thereafter elections were held every three years, with all members being elected by the first past the post system of election on the same day. Later, the cycle was ...
The council was created on 1 April 2019, when Dorset County Council and five of its six district councils merged to form a unitary authority. A "shadow authority" was created in 2018 to oversee the transition, comprising all the existing district and county councillors representing the area of the new authority. [1]
The 1997 Dorset County Council election was held on 1 May 1997, on the same day as the 1997 general election and other local elections. This was the first election in which as a result of Local Government Reorganisation there was creation of two new Unitary Authorities in the county; Bournemouth and Poole . [ 1 ]
Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole .
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2013 Dorset County Council election; 2017 Dorset County Council election This page was last edited on 7 October 2019, at 21:03 (UTC). Text ...