7-492: Colwyn was a local government district with borough status from 1974 to 1996, being one of six districts in the county of Clwyd , north-east Wales . The borough was created on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 . It covered parts of four former districts from the administrative county of Denbighshire , which were all abolished at the same time: The new borough was named Colwyn, taken from
14-574: The Colwyn Bay Borough Council. Following the abolition of Colwyn in 1996 the building served as the headquarters of the successor Conwy County Borough Council until 2018. 53°10′N 3°35′W / 53.17°N 3.58°W / 53.17; -3.58 Districts of Wales The districts of Wales were a form of local government in Wales used between 1974 and 1996. There were thirty-seven districts, and they were
21-510: The name of the area's largest town, Colwyn Bay. Under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 , Clwyd County Council and the county's constituent districts were abolished, being replaced by principal areas , whose councils perform the functions which had previously been divided between the county and district councils. With effect from 1 April 1996, the two communities of Cefnmeiriadog and Trefnant were transferred from Colwyn to
28-410: The new council came into being. The borough of Colwyn was twinned with Konstanz , Germany and Roissy-en-Brie , France . The name Colwyn is currently used for an electoral ward covering the eastern part of the community of Old Colwyn . The ward had a population of 4,566 at the 2011 census. The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside
35-434: The new county of Denbighshire , and the remainder of Colwyn was merged with the neighbouring district of Aberconwy from Gwynedd to become a county borough which the government originally named "Aberconwy and Colwyn". During the transition to the new system, the shadow authority requested a change of name from "Aberconwy and Colwyn" to " Conwy ". The government confirmed the change with effect from 2 April 1996, one day after
42-522: The outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council from 1974 until its abolition in 1996 was as follows: The council was based at the Civic Centre on Abergele Road in Colwyn Bay. The building had been built in 1909 as a hospital called Glan y Don Hall, but had been converted to a civic centre in 1964 for one of Colwyn's predecessor authorities,
49-436: The second tier of local government introduced by the Local Government Act 1972 , being subdivisions of the eight counties introduced at the same time. This system of two-tier local government was abolished in 1996 and replaced with the current system of unitary principal areas . Each district was administered by an elected district council. The council was entitled to petition for a charter granting borough status, whereupon
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