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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 .
Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council .
There are two tiers of local government covering St Leonards and St Ives, at parish and unitary authority level: St Leonards and St Ives Parish Council and the St Leonards and St Ives ward for Dorset Council. The parish council meets at the village hall on Braeside Road in St Leonards. [6]
Dorset County Council's responsibilities included schools, social care for the elderly and vulnerable, road maintenance, libraries and trading standards. The county council's area was also administered by six smaller authorities that have their own district or borough councils. The responsibilities of these councils included local planning ...
2019 Dorset Council election: Wareham (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Beryl Rita Ezzard : 1,837 : 57.1 : Liberal Democrats: Ryan David Holloway : 1,308 : 40.6 : Conservative: Mark Unsworth 965 30.0 Conservative: Mike Wiggins 942 29.3 UKIP: Keith Allen Simpson 431 13.4 Labour: Cherry Ann Bartlett 365 11.3 Labour: Alice ...
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 ...
Bournemouth and Poole had both been unitary authorities since 1997, whilst Christchurch was a lower tier district council, with Dorset County Council providing county-level services in that borough. The way the changes were implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county both called Bournemouth ...
Dorset Council may refer to: Dorset Council (Australia) , local government area in Tasmania, Australia Dorset Council (UK) , a unitary authority council in England, formed in 2019