22-478: North Warwickshire The Meriden Rural District was a rural district of Warwickshire , England , which existed between 1894 and 1974. It was named after the village of Meriden . Various boundary changes occurred to the district over the years. It gained area from the abolished Castle Bromwich Rural District in 1912. In 1932 it was enlarged by the abolition of the Nuneaton Rural District
44-420: Is also covered by civil parish , which form a third tier of local government. The council has been under no overall control since the 2023 election , being led by a Conservative minority administration with informal support from two of the three independent councillors. The first elections to the council were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until
66-481: Is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire in England. Its headquarters are at Shire Hall in the centre of Warwick , the county town . The council's principal functions are county roads and rights of way , social services , education and libraries , but it also provides numerous other local government services in its area. Elected county councils were created in 1889 under
88-693: The Foleshill Rural District and the Solihull Rural District . It also lost territory as the county boroughs of Solihull and Coventry expanded their boundaries. The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 . Part of it to the south was merged with the Solihull county borough and Coventry to become part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and City of Coventry in
110-420: The Local Government Act 1888 , taking over many administrative functions which had previously been performed by unelected magistrates at the quarter sessions . The cities of Birmingham and Coventry were considered large enough to provide their own county-level services and so were made county boroughs , independent from Warwickshire County Council. The county council was elected by and provided services to
132-705: The North Warwickshire parliamentary constituency . The constituency also includes the town of Bedworth , but does not include the villages of Hartshill and Arley . The local MP is Craig Tracey . The council is based at the Council House on South Street in Atherstone. The building was purpose-built for the council and opened in 1979. The whole district is covered by 33 civil parishes . The parish councils for Atherstone and Coleshill have declared their parishes to be towns, allowing them to take
154-621: The "Dordon Independents" group, which supported the Conservatives in forming a minority administration in May 2023. The next election is due in 2027. Since the last boundary changes in 2003 the council has comprised 35 councillors representing 17 wards with each ward electing two councillors except the Arley and Whitacre ward, which elects three. Elections are held every four years. The boundaries of North Warwickshire are similar to those of
176-720: The county council were held in January 1889 and it formally came into being on 1 April 1889. On that day it held its first official meeting at the Shire Hall in Warwick, the courthouse which had served as the meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. John Dugdale , the Conservative MP for Nuneaton , was appointed the first chairman of the council. The administrative county ceded Aston Manor and Erdington to Birmingham in 1911. Solihull
198-421: The county is also covered by civil parishes , which form a third tier of local government. The county council has been under Conservative majority control since 2017. Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms has been as follows: The leaders of the council since 1993 have been: Following the 2021 election the composition of the council was: The next election is due in 2025. Since
220-542: The incident was published by Disability Rights UK and co signed by 12 other disability charities. Following a large number of official complaints the Council hired solicitor firm to conduct an investigation into the complaints. There report is expected to be published in June 2024. A petition with over 30,000 signatures calling for the three Councillors to resign was submitted to the Council with Leader Izzi Seccombe accepting
242-552: The last boundary changes in 2017 the council has been divided into 57 electoral divisions , each electing one councillor . Elections are held every four years. The county council is based at the Shire Hall in Market Place, Warwick , a complex of buildings built over many years. The oldest part was a courthouse built in 1758 facing Northgate Street. As the county council's functions grew it built new offices in 1929–32 on
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#1732782342873264-478: The meeting was shared on social media. Following the media attention the Council published a statement and apologies from the three Councillors. The Conservative Group received criticism for their decision not to discipline the Councillors by removing the whip and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked to intervene by the Warwick and Leamington MP Matt Western during Prime Minister Question Time. A letter about
286-748: The mildly undulating agricultural variety, with the North Warwickshire plateau rising to 177 m (581 ft) above sea-level at Bentley Common, 2.5 miles southwest of Atherstone . The most significant bodies of water within North Warwickshire are Kingsbury Water Park , Shustoke Reservoir , the River Blythe and the mid-section of the Coventry Canal . The neighbouring districts are Nuneaton and Bedworth , Coventry , Solihull , Birmingham , Lichfield , Tamworth , North West Leicestershire and Hinckley and Bosworth . The district
308-625: The new West Midlands county. Part of it to the north was merged with the Atherstone Rural District to become part of North Warwickshire . At the time of its abolition in 1974 Meriden RD consisted of the following civil parishes : 52°27′N 1°39′W / 52.45°N 1.65°W / 52.45; -1.65 North Warwickshire North Warwickshire is a local government district with borough status in Warwickshire , England. The borough includes
330-421: The new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows: The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in North Warwickshire. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council . The leaders since 2009 have been: Following the 2023 election the composition of the council was: Two of the three independent councillors sit together as
352-405: The petition but declining to debate the petition. As a result of the comments a joint Labour and Liberal Democrat motion was submitted for all elected members to receive training on SEND. This received cross party support and was unanimously voted for. Warwickshire County Council provides county-level services. District-level services are provided by the five district councils: Much of
374-406: The rest of the county, which area was termed the administrative county . The 1888 Act also said that any urban sanitary districts which straddled county boundaries were to be placed entirely in the county which had the majority of that district's population, which saw Warwickshire cede its part of Tamworth to Staffordshire and its part of Hinckley to Leicestershire . The first elections to
396-534: The same time, Warwickshire was divided into five non-metropolitan districts which form a lower tier of local government. In 2024 the Council became the centre of a national controversy following comments made by three Conservative Councillors during a Children’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee discussing spending on Special Educational NeedS (SEND). The comments by Cllr Brian Hammersley, Cllr Clare Golby and Cllr Jeff Morgan were considered to be 'derogatory' and attracted national and local media and video footage of
418-578: The style "town council". Some of the parishes share a grouped parish council. The parishes are: North Warwickshire is served by BBC West Midlands and ITV Central with television signals received from the Sutton Coldfield TV transmitter. Radio stations for the area are: The council was granted a coat of arms in 1976. 52°34′34″N 1°32′43″W / 52.5760°N 1.5454°W / 52.5760; -1.5454 Warwickshire County Council Warwickshire County Council
440-404: The two towns of Atherstone (where the council is based) and Coleshill , and the large villages of Hartshill , Kingsbury , Mancetter , Polesworth and Water Orton along with smaller villages and surrounding rural areas. The area historically had a large coal mining industry, but the last coal mine in the area, Daw Mill at Arley , closed in 2013. The borough's landscape is primarily of
462-520: Was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , by a merger of one previous district with part of another, these were: The new district was named North Warwickshire, reflecting its position in the wider county. The district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor . North Warwickshire Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Warwickshire County Council . The whole borough
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#1732782342873484-524: Was made a county borough in 1964. The administrative county was reformed in 1974 to become a non-metropolitan county , at which point it also ceded Sutton Coldfield , Hockley Heath and much of the Meriden Rural District to the new West Midlands metropolitan county , which also covered the already independent county boroughs of Birmingham, Coventry and Solihull, alongside other territory from Staffordshire and Worcestershire . At
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