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As a unitary authority, Leicester City Council provides both county-level and district-level services. Some services are provided via joint committees with other councils, notably the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service and Leicestershire Constabulary, which are run by joint boards of the city council with Leicestershire County Council and Rutland County Council.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to include Leicestershire and Rutland with Lincolnshire in a sub-region of the East Midlands region, creating one additional seat by re-establishing the ...
Leicestershire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire, England. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county, which additionally includes Leicester. The county council was originally formed in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888.
The post-war period saw another shortage of housing and some 600 people on the waiting list for council housing. The council developed a 100-dwelling extension to the Bowden Fields Estate by 1949 and acquired 140 acres (0.57 km 2) of land to the southwest of the town to deal with the problem. A new Southern Estate was planned to accommodate 700 ...
Although located in the far south-west corner of Leicester, the area is under the administration of Leicester City Council rather than Leicestershire County Council as some of the neighbouring areas are. [7] Eyres Monsell is five miles south of Leicester city centre and is in walking distance from Fosse shopping park in Enderby. It is the ...
Harborough District Council is based at the Symington Building, located in the centre of Market Harborough. The building was originally a corset factory, built in 1884. [17] The council purchased the building in 1980 and converted it to become its offices and meeting place, as well as providing a new library for the town. [18]
A Leicestershire council has announced it will be removing a quarter of its litter and dog waste bins in a bid to "maximise efficiency". Oadby and Wigston Borough Council said it currently had 500 ...
The symbol of Charnwood Borough Council is the fox, which is also the symbol used by Leicestershire County Council. Charnwood contains the village of Quorn , which gives its name to one of the country's oldest fox hunting packs, the Quorn Hunt , which was established in 1696 and moved to Quorn in 1753.