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Poole Borough Council was the unitary authority responsible for local government in the Borough of Poole, Dorset, England.It was created on 1 April 1997 following a review by the Local Government Commission for England (1992), becoming administratively independent from Dorset County Council, and ceased to exist on 1 April 2019. [1]
The role of mayor was largely ceremonial at Poole Borough Council. Political leadership was instead provided by the leader of the council . The leaders from 2003 until the council's abolition in 2019 were:
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 ...
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council is a unitary authority in Dorset, England.It was formed in April 2019, with the inaugural elections held in May of that year. The council is made up of 76 councillors from 33 wards, elected for a four-year term, with the next elections due take place in 2027.
The plans were supported by every affected body except Christchurch Borough Council, which formally opposed the reorganisation [6] and unsuccessfully challenged the proposals in the High Court. [7] Several Conservative councillors in Christchurch were suspended from the party for their opposition to the plan, leading to several of them standing ...
The borough of Poole was abolished in 2019, merging with the boroughs of Bournemouth and Christchurch to become a new local government district called Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, the council of which is a unitary authority. [42]
The council stayed with no overall control but the Liberal Democrats became the largest single party. [2] [3] As no one party controlled a majority of the council the Liberal Democrats, Christchurch Independents, Poole People Party and The Bournemouth Independent Group subsequently formed a coalition administration known as the "Three Towns ...
Poole Civic Centre is an Art Deco municipal building in Poole, Dorset. Since 7 October 2019 the building has been a Grade II listed building . [ 1 ] Also sometimes known as Poole Town Hall , the civic centre was the headquarters of Poole Borough Council until 2019.