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Buckinghamshire Council is the local authority for Buckinghamshire (district), a non-metropolitan county in England. It is a unitary authority , performing both county and district-level functions. It was created on 1 April 2020, replacing the previous Buckinghamshire County Council and the councils of the four abolished districts of Aylesbury ...
A new unitary authority, Buckinghamshire Council, replaced Buckinghamshire County Council and the non-metropolitan districts of Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, and Wycombe on 1 April 2020. This change was proposed by Martin Tett, leader of the county council, and backed by then-Communities Secretary James Brokenshire.
A round of local government reorganisation took place in England between 2019 and 2023 during the Conservative governments of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.Here several large unitary authorities were created between either by abolition of district councils, (in Somerset, Dorset, Buckinghamshire and North Yorkshire), or by the abolition of county councils and grouping of districts into new ...
The existing local authority became an urban sanitary authority, without change of title. In Buckinghamshire this applied to Aylesbury, Beaconsfield, Buckingham, Chesham, Eton, Slough and Chepping Wycombe. Also created were rural sanitary districts, which were identical in area to poor law unions, less any urban sanitary district.
The administrative county of Buckinghamshire in England is divided into four local government districts which include many civil parishes. See List of civil parishes in Buckinghamshire. The ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire includes the administratively separate unitary authority of Milton Keynes that is fully divided into civil parishes.
The local authority is Buckinghamshire Council and the seat formerly coincided with the now-abolished Chiltern District.It includes the towns of Chesham, Amersham and Gerrards Cross, together with outlying villages within the Metropolitan Green Belt.
Buckinghamshire is a non-metropolitan county in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It covers about four-fifths of area of the ceremonial county and about two-thirds of its population; the City of Milton Keynes accounts for the remainder. The district is administered by Buckinghamshire Council, a unitary authority.
High Wycombe Borough Council was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. [10] The successor body, Wycombe District Council , used the municipal offices as its headquarters, substantially extending the building to the rear and renaming it the "District Council Offices".