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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.
The District of Montgomeryshire or Montgomery (Welsh: Maldwyn) was one of three local government districts of the county of Powys, Wales, from 1974 until 1996. The district had an identical area to the previous administrative county of Montgomeryshire. The district was abolished in 1996, with Powys County Council taking over its functions.
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. [10] [11]
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He was re-elected as a County Councillor for Talgarth in Powys in 2017. [2] Following the resignation of Kirsty Williams, Powell was chosen as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 2021 Senedd election. [19] At the time, this was the party's only remaining seat in Wales. [20]
The Mid Wales Corporate Joint Committee (Welsh: Cyd-Bwyllgor Corfforedig y Canolbarth) is the Corporate Joint Committee for Mid Wales that was established in April 2021 by statutory instruments made under the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021. [2]
Powys County Council at county level. The ward elects a county councillor. The current county councillor, Michael Williams, was unopposed again at the May 2017 election, but won a contested election in 2022. He had been elected unopposed since first winning the seat in 1980. He had also sat on the Machynlleth Town Council since 1974. [30]
There are currently 22 principal areas (styled as a county or a county borough) in Wales, with the current configuration established in the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, enacted on 1 April 1996, while the framework was established earlier in the Local Government Act 1972. Like community councils, they are composed of councillors.