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Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. ... council housing, refuse collection, sports and ...
Dorset Council is responsible for most of the local government services such as planning decisions and building control, local roads, council housing, markets and fairs, environmental health, refuse collection and recycling, education, social services, public transport, police and fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and strategic ...
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 .
A non-metropolitan district of Dorset was created matching the new version of the non-metropolitan county. Dorset Council is legally the district council, and there is no separate county council; the district council also performs county council functions, making it a unitary authority. [6]
Christchurch CC: 71,598 7,455 Christopher Chope† Mike Cox¤ Mid Dorset and North Poole CC: 74,305 1,352 Vikki Slade¤ Michael Tomlinson† North Dorset CC: 72,109 1,589 Simon Hoare† Gary Jackson¤ Poole BC: 72,162 18 Neil Duncan-Jordan‡ Robert Syms† South Dorset CC: 76,640 1,048 Lloyd Hatton‡ Richard Drax† West Dorset CC: 75,390 7,789
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Dorset in South West England. All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown. The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets.
In the early 20th century, Shire Hall in Dorchester was the local facility for dispensing justice and the meeting place of Dorset County Council. [1] After deciding the Shire Hall was inadequate for their needs, county leaders chose to procure a new county headquarters: the site selected had previously been open land known as "Colliton Park" which had once been occupied by the monastic ...
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. [54] It thus is not a unitary authority as those are such authorities created under the Local Government Act 1992 .