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Powys is administered by Powys County Council and has 68 elected councillors representing 60 council wards. Although it is a unitary authority , the highway functions of the council, along with the allocation of small grants, are delegated to the three Shire Committees.
By 1986 the council had changed its name from Montgomery to Montgomeryshire. [ 5 ] The district was abolished by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 , with its functions transferring to Powys County Council on 1 April 1996.
A community council may call itself a "town council" if it so wishes. The councils of three communities with city status – Bangor, St Asaph, and St Davids – are known as "city councils". Communities which are too small to have a council may have a community meeting instead: an example of direct democracy. The communities in the urban areas ...
Following local government re-organisation in 1974, the building became the offices of Montgomeryshire District Council. [5] However, following the creation of unitary authorities in 1996, it was relegated to the role of regional office for Powys County Council, the headquarters of which was based in Llandrindod Wells. [6]
Powell lives with his family on their farm in the Black Mountains near Talgarth, Powys, where his ancestors have farmed since the 18th Century. [22] On 26 March 2020, he was admitted to Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny with COVID-19 symptoms. [23] He spent two and a half weeks of his three-week stay in an induced coma on a ventilator. [24]
The county council moved its archives centre off the cramped County Hall site to new premises in Ddole Road in October 2017. [9] It then sought planning permission (from its own planning committee) to expand the capacity of the County Hall complex, by erecting a single storey extension and a new reception hall, in February 2020.
Knighton Community Centre is a venue situated in the Powys border town of Knighton. Following an extensive refurbishment in 2017, it has become a hub for a wide range of services, including: District Library in partnership with Powys County Council; Community Hub including Tuesday and Thursday Drop Ins
Map of the results of the 2012 Powys County Council election. The fifth election to the Powys County Council since local government reorganization in Wales in 1995 was held on 1 May 2012. [1] It was preceded by the 2008 election and was followed by the 2017 election. The Independent group retained a majority on the authority