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38-568: White Rock Theatre is a medium-scale receiving house venue owned by Hastings Borough Council situated on the seafront of Hastings , East Sussex , on the south coast of England. It currently presents a varied programme of touring shows including opera , ballet , musicals , the Hastings Musical Festival and children's shows. The original East Sussex Hospital was replaced with the White Rock Pavilion which

76-466: A theatre building in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hastings Borough Council The council has been under no overall control since 2022. Following the 2024 election a Green Party minority administration formed to run the council. The council is based at Muriel Matters House on the seafront. Hastings was an ancient borough . It was given

114-622: A Café, the Stalls bar and the Circle Bar. Also part of the venue is the Campbell Room and Studio – both used for smaller shows, community groups, corporate hospitality and private functions. 50°51′13″N 0°34′20″E  /  50.853733°N 0.572251°E  / 50.853733; 0.572251 This article about an East Sussex building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

152-413: A county borough did not have a separate commission of assize , oyer and terminer and jury service, or gaol delivery, it was deemed to be part of one or more adjoining counties for those purposes. The Act also provided for certain financial adjustments between county boroughs and adjoining counties. The Act did not in terms affect the status of cities and towns which were counties corporate . Most of

190-520: A distinct county), were to become part of the county where they were situated. Section 49 allowed for the creation by provisional order of a Council for the Scilly Islands to be established as a unitary authority outside the administrative county of Cornwall. This was duly formed in 1890 as the Isles of Scilly Rural District. There were 36 urban sanitary districts which straddled counties prior to

228-580: A loss, the council decided to close the Theatre down. This announcement was met with the fierce opposition from local people and groups rallied round in support of the White Rock. In May 2002 Clear Channel Entertainment, a huge American organisation, took over management of the venue. In December 2005 Clear Channel Entertainment was spun off from the main body of Clear Channel and became Live Nation . On February 1, 2009, HQ Theatres took over as operator of

266-591: A new group, the Hastings Independents. Over the following week, they were joined by two more Labour councillors. The group has criticised the national party's 'micromanaging' of local elections, and its position on the Israel–Hamas war . In January 2024 a new administration comprising the Greens and the former Labour councillors took over the council, led by Green councillor Julia Hilton. Following

304-401: A population as 50,000, but which had very peculiar claims. He referred to the counties of cities. [...] Two or three of these cities had so small a population that he did not propose to deal with them in this way. The best course was to give the names of the cities which he proposed to include. They were Exeter, Lincoln, Chester, Gloucester, Worcester, and Canterbury." The effect of these changes

342-453: A ratio of "not more than" one alderman to six councillors. The councillors appointed the council's "Chairman instead of mayor" and Vice Chairman, who had a one-year term of office and could be reappointed. As to natural persons section 1 of the Act states every such council shall "consist of the chairman, aldermen, and councillors". The Chairman would upon (this ex officio , by virtue of office)

380-482: Is also split into flat and raked seating areas. The stage is 47 feet (14 m) wide and 31.6 feet (9.6 m) deep, with a 1/28 rake. The seating capacity used to be 1066 (after the Battle of Hastings , but in early 2019 the capacity and layout was increased to allow more flexibility to the venue. From its very beginning Hastings Borough Council ran the Theatre. As the years went by and the Theatre continued to run at

418-495: The Cinque Ports and Staffordshire Potteries were not successful. The normal population threshold for county borough status was lowered twice, firstly to 100,000, then to 50,000. A number of smaller counties corporate were also given county borough status. Mr Ritchie conceded on 8 June: "Now that they had gone down so far in population as 50,000 there arose a question as to the admission of boroughs which had not so large

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456-483: The "selected councillors" became "county aldermen". The government withdrew the sections relating to the creation of district councils, which were eventually brought into existence by the Local Government Act 1894 . Members of both houses made representations on behalf of counties and boroughs, and this led to an increase in the number of local authorities. Attempts to create administrative counties for

494-535: The 2024 election a Green Party minority administration was formed. Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms has been as follows: The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Hastings. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council . The leaders since 2001 have been: Following the 2024 election the composition of the council was: Six of the independent councillors (all of whom were originally elected as Labour before leaving

532-488: The Act. These included: County borough corporations also exercised these powers, in addition to those of a municipal borough. Control of the county police was to be exercised jointly by the quarter sessions and the county council through a standing joint committee. The committees were replaced by police authorities by the Police Act 1964 . Counties were also used as areas for administering justice and organisation of

570-588: The Militia Act 1882 which was left in force, with the exception that if the boundaries of an administrative county changed then so too did any lieutenancy, shrieval or judicial area to match. Whilst schedule 3 of the Act identified that four of the county boroughs (Bristol, Great Yarmouth, Stockport and York) should be deemed to lie in more than one county for the purposes of the Act, those purposes did not include lieutenancy, but were instead concerned with certain financial matters. For lieutenancy purposes, Bristol

608-497: The White Rock in partnership with Hastings Borough Council . In March 2021, White Rock Theatre came under the control of Trafalgar Entertainment as part of their acquisition of HQ Theatres. The Theatre has seen a selection of entertainment over the years including Motörhead , Russell Brand , Hot Chocolate , Eartha Kitt , Al Murray , Geri Halliwell , Jools Holland , Derren Brown , Ricky Tomlinson , Tim Vine and Greg Davies . It also hosts an annual pantomime. The venue houses

646-757: The area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . This would have led to the creation of fifty-seven county councils. The boundaries of the counties were to be those used for parliamentary purposes, adjusted to include urban sanitary districts on county borders within a single county. The ten cities first identified to be dealt with as separate counties were Liverpool , Birmingham , Manchester , Leeds , Sheffield , Bristol , Bradford , Nottingham , Kingston-on-Hull , and Newcastle upon Tyne . Existing urban and rural sanitary districts, created in 1872, were to be redesignated as urban and rural districts. Urban such districts that straddled counties became destined for

684-563: The borough, which is an unparished area . The council has been under no overall control since the 2022 election . A Labour and Green coalition formed after that election, but separated five months later in October 2022, after which Labour ran the council as a minority administration. In December 2023, six Labour councillors — including the Leader and Deputy Leader — resigned the party in protest at Keir Starmer 's leadership and formed

722-740: The control of elected councils, modelled on the borough councils introduced by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 . Accordingly, the Local Government (England and Wales) Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 19 March 1888, by the President of the Local Government Board , Charles Ritchie . The Bill proposed the creation of elected county councils to take over the administrative functions of

760-536: The council (one councillor for each ward) being elected each time for a four-year term of office. Local Government Act 1888 The Local Government Act 1888 ( 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) was an Act of Parliament which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales . It came into effect on 1 April 1889, except for the County of London , which came into existence on 21 March at

798-420: The council initially rented. In 2016 the council purchased Aquila House, renamed it Muriel Matters House after Muriel Matters (1877–1969) who had lived in the town, and created a new council chamber in the building. Since the last boundary changes in 2018 the council has comprised 32 councillors representing 16 wards , with each ward electing two councillors. Elections are held in alternate years, with half

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836-547: The counties corporate became county boroughs and therefore administrative counties of themselves, but while other county boroughs continued to be part of their existing counties for all other purposes, that did not apply to existing counties corporate. Those that did not become county boroughs became part of adjacent administrative counties but retained their existing judicial functions and shrievalties. The Act did not change which counties, ridings and counties corporate were included in each lieutenancy area; those were already set by

874-481: The county for the purpose of the election of county councillors became fixed, under a key definition of the Act, "as electoral divisions and not wards", and "one county councillor only shall be elected for each". Following the election, the county councillors then elected county aldermen, there being one alderman for every three councillors. The London County Council had its own section of the Act, prescribing two councillors to be elected for each Commons constituency, and

912-457: The county with the bulk of their population as at the 1881 census , by enlarging the latter. Existing rural sanitary districts so straddling were to split on county lines to form rural districts. There were a large number of changes to the Bill as it passed through parliament. The terms administrative county and county borough were introduced to designate the new areas of local government, while

950-404: The elective councillors in a similar manner to aldermen in municipal boroughs . The counties to be used for local government were to be the historic counties of England and Wales . A county council was to be formed for each of the ridings of Yorkshire and the three divisions of Lincolnshire ( Holland , Kesteven and Lindsey ). In addition a new County of London was to be formed from

988-403: The first time. Hastings kept its borough status, allowing the council to take the name Hastings Borough Council and letting the chair of the council take the title of mayor, continuing Hastings' series of mayors dating back to 1589. Hastings Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by East Sussex County Council . There are no civil parishes in

1026-499: The magistrates of the Quarter Sessions courts, that ten large cities should be "counties of themselves" for the purposes of local government and that each county was to be divided into urban and rural districts, based on existing sanitary districts , governed by a district council. The county and district councils were to consist partly of directly elected "elective councillors" and partly of "selected councillors", chosen by

1064-414: The militia. The act adjusted the boundaries for the purposes of " sheriff , lieutenant , custos rotulorum , justices, militia, coroner, or other" , ensuring the judicial definitions of the counties matched groups of the administrative counties and county boroughs. The counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Sussex and Yorkshire were undivided so far as they were one county at

1102-520: The party) sit together as the "Hastings Independent Group". The next election is due in 2026. The council is based at a modern office building called Muriel Matters House on Breeds Place, overlooking the seafront. The council was previously based at the Town Hall on Queens Road, which had been built in 1881. The council met and had its offices at Town Hall until 2012. Most of the council's offices then moved to Aquila House on Breeds Place, which

1140-441: The passing of the Act. The three ridings of Yorkshire and the three parts of Lincolnshire therefore retained their status. County boroughs were to be administrative counties of themselves. The Act provided that each county borough that had previously been part of a county (i.e., was not a county corporate) should continue to be part of that county for non-administrative purposes, notably judicial functions and lieutenancy. If

1178-438: The purposes of lieutenancy, a situation which persisted until the major reforms of 1974. Under section 48 of the Act all liberties and franchises, with the exception of those that became separate administrative counties, merged with the county they formed part of for parliamentary elections. The Cinque Ports , together with "the two ancient towns and their members" (which for some purposes, such as lieutenancy , were considered

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1216-684: The request of the London County Council . Following the 1886 general election , a Conservative administration headed by Lord Salisbury was formed. However the Conservatives did not have a majority of seats and had to rely on the support of the Liberal Unionist Party . As part of the price for this support the Liberal Unionists demanded that a bill be introduced placing county government under

1254-411: The right to appoint a mayor in 1589. It was reformed in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to become a municipal borough , governed by a body formally called the "mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Hastings", generally known as the corporation or town council. When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 it was decided that Hastings

1292-454: The selecting of that person (co-option) be entitled to be a Justice of the Peace but needed take the oaths of that office "before acting as such justice", aside from the oath as to having local real estate as they had already met the equivalent requirement to become a councillor or alderman. The powers and responsibilities transferred from the quarter sessions to the councils were enumerated in

1330-707: Was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales in April 1927. It was built for the Hastings Municipal Orchestra. The pavilion underwent a further re-modification in 1939, when along with an electrical/electronics and acoustics upgrade, the seats were modified to be of the cinema 'folding' type and again in 1985 when it was renamed the White Rock Theatre. The auditorium is split on two levels – The Stalls and The Circle with an overall capacity of 1082 seats or 1620 for standing/seated events. The Stalls

1368-590: Was solely in Gloucestershire, and York was solely in the West Riding. The county borough of Great Yarmouth did straddle Norfolk and Suffolk for judicial and lieutenancy purposes after the new county councils came into force, but only for two years; it was placed entirely in Norfolk in 1891. After 1891 Stockport was therefore the only county borough to straddle two counties (Cheshire and Lancashire) for

1406-402: Was sufficiently large to provide its own county-level services and so it was made a county borough , independent from East Sussex County Council . On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 , the borough became a non-metropolitan district within the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, giving East Sussex County Council jurisdiction over the town as a higher-tier authority for

1444-508: Was to increase the number of county boroughs from ten to fifty-nine. With a population of around 50,000 at the 1881 census, the City of London was initially proposed for county borough status. These were subject to triennial elections, the first taking place in January 1889. Those elected in 1889 were known as "provisional" councils until coming into their powers on 1 April. The divisions of

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