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In 2002, Maria Gatland was elected as a member of the Conservative Party to Croydon Council as a councillor for Croham ward and in 2006 became Croydon's cabinet member for education. She says that she never hid her IRA past. [1] When the Conservative Party found out about her past she stepped down as a council cabinet member in early December ...
In November 2020, Croydon council announced its "de facto bankruptcy" by issuing two section 114 notices. [9] In February 2021, Newman and Hall were suspended from the Labour party after a report was produced into their conduct in the lead-up to the effective bankruptcy of the council. In March, they both resigned from the council. [10]
The town of Croydon's first local authority was a body of improvement commissioners established in 1829. [4] They were superseded in 1849 by an elected local board. [5] [6] The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1883, after which it was governed by a body formally called the "Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Croydon", generally known as the corporation, town council ...
A campaign group supporting an elected mayor for Croydon called DEMOC started a petition to change to the mayoral system in February 2020, which they submitted to the council in September 2020. The mayoral system would replace the leader-and-cabinet system, whereby the leader of the council is chosen by the majority party or coalition of parties.
Elections for the Croydon London Borough Council are held every four years to elect 70 councillors. The last ward boundary changes came into force at the 2018 local elections. Political control
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The council had previously described its 2022 financial plans as a "bold budget" that would "maximise the potential of a golden decade for the city"; following the section 114 notice, Robert Alden, the Conservative opposition leader on the council, accused the administration of "lying to the people of Birmingham" and calling the idea of a ...
Morales announced that she is resigning from her position as the District 2 representative on the Seattle City Council in an email to residents of her district. Her resignation will be effective ...