21-557: Teignbridge is a local government district in Devon , England. Its council is based in the town of Newton Abbot . The district also includes the towns of Ashburton , Buckfastleigh , Dawlish , Kingsteignton and Teignmouth , along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. Teignbridge contains part of the south Devon coastline, including the Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve . Some of
42-515: A Tudor mansion and its grounds. A modern office building was built in the grounds to serve as the council's headquarters, being formally opened on 27 April 1987. The new office building now takes the name Forde House, with the old mansion now called Old Forde House. The district is entirely divided into civil parishes . Some of the smaller parishes have a parish meeting rather than a parish council. The parish councils for Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish, Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth take
63-505: A parish council may be set up. Where a parish council (whether the successor of a former borough or not) has resolved to style itself a town council, then its chair is entitled to the designation of town mayor, though in practice, the word "town" is often dropped. The right to appoint a lord mayor is a rare honour, even less frequently bestowed than city status . Currently, 23 cities in England have lord mayors: In May 2022, Southampton
84-576: A two-tier arrangement. Non-metropolitan districts with borough status are known as boroughs , able to appoint a mayor and refer to itself as a borough council. Some shire counties now have no sub divisions so are a single Non-metropolitan district such as Cornwall. Typically a district will consist of a market town and its more rural hinterland. However districts are diverse with some being mostly urban such as Dartford, and others more polycentric such as Thurrock. Non-metropolitan districts are subdivisions of English non-metropolitan counties which have
105-461: A two-tier structure of local government. Two-tier non-metropolitan counties have a county council and several districts, each with a borough or district council. In these cases local government functions are divided between county and district councils, to the level where they can be practised most efficiently: Many districts have borough status , which means the local council is called a borough council instead of district council and gives them
126-513: A unitary authority or those that transferred from one county to another, including those that changed name. Nor does it include unitary authorities that have been abolished ( Bournemouth and Poole ). Mayors in England In England , the offices of mayor and lord mayor have long been ceremonial posts, with few or no duties attached to them. In recent years they have doubled as more influential political roles while retaining
147-654: Is also covered by civil parishes , which form a third tier of local government. In the parts of the district within the Dartmoor National Park, town planning is the responsibility of the Dartmoor National Park Authority . The district council appoints two of its councillors to serve on the 19-person National Park Authority. The leaders of the council since 2003 have been: Following the 2023 election and subsequent by-elections and changes of allegiance up to November 2024,
168-569: Is in practice seldom used for a Town Mayor. These honorific styles are used only before the Mayoral title and not before the name, and are not retained after the term of office. A mayor can also be styled Mr Mayor and usually appoints a consort, usually a spouse, other family member or fellow councillor. In England (and the Commonwealth ) the designated female consort of a mayor is usually styled Mayoress or occasionally Mrs Mayor and accompanies
189-604: The District Councils' Network , special interest group which sits within the Local Government Association . The network's purpose is to "act as an informed and representative advocate for districts to government and other national bodies, based on their unique position to deliver for local people." This is a list of two-tier non-metropolitan counties and their districts. All unitary authorities are also non-metropolitan districts, which, with
210-516: The Sovereign, in their district, but they are not addressed as mayor. In England, where a borough or a city is a local government district or a civil parish , the mayor is elected annually by the council from their number and chairs meetings of the council with a casting vote . Where the mayoralty used to be associated with a local government district but that district has been abolished, charter trustees may be set up to provide continuity until
231-454: The areas for Wales and England had been enacted separately and there were no Welsh metropolitan areas, the term 'non-metropolitan district' does not apply to Wales. A similar system existed in Scotland , which in 1975 was divided into regions and districts, this was also abolished in 1996 and replaced with a fully unitary system . In England most of the district councils are represented by
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#1732780111803252-413: The ceremonial functions. A mayor's term of office denotes the municipal year . Traditionally mayors and provosts have been elected by town , borough and city councils. Since 2000, several districts now have directly elected mayors with extensive powers. The role of the chair of a district council is exactly the same as the mayor of a borough council; they have the same status as first citizen, after
273-551: The composition of the council was: The next election is due in 2027. Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 47 councillors representing 24 wards , with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years. The council is based at Forde House on Brunel Road in Newton Abbot. The council bought the Forde House estate in 1978 for £60,000. The estate comprised
294-487: The exception of those of Berkshire , are coterminous with non-metropolitan counties. For a full list of districts of all types including unitary authorities, metropolitan districts and London boroughs , see Districts of England . This is a list of former two-tier districts in England which have been abolished, by local government reorganisations such as the 2009 structural changes to local government in England . It does not include districts that still exist after becoming
315-566: The inland western parts of the district lie within the Dartmoor National Park . It is named after the old Teignbridge hundred . The neighbouring districts are Torbay , South Hams , West Devon , Mid Devon , East Devon and Exeter . The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , covering the whole area of six former districts and part of a seventh, which were all abolished at
336-565: The right to appoint a mayor . Borough status is granted by royal charter and, in many cases, continues a style enjoyed by a predecessor authority, which can date back centuries. Some districts such as Oxford or Exeter have city status , granted by letters patent , but this does not give the local council any extra powers other than the right to call itself a city council . By 1899, England had been divided at district level into rural districts , urban districts , municipal boroughs , county boroughs and metropolitan boroughs . This system
357-517: The same time: The new district was named Teignbridge after the medieval hundred of that name which had covered some of the area. The hundred in turn had been named after the bridge over the River Teign on Exeter Road west of Kingsteignton, where there had been a number of bridges since Roman times. Teignbridge District Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Devon County Council . The whole district
378-427: The style "town council". Settlements in the district include: 50°34′55″N 3°37′41″W / 50.582°N 3.628°W / 50.582; -3.628 Non-metropolitan district Non-metropolitan districts , or colloquially " shire districts ", are a type of local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties (colloquially shire counties ) in
399-526: The two-tier structure, but reforms in the 1990s and 2009 reduced their number to 192. A further 55 non-metropolitan districts are now unitary authorities, which combine the functions of county and borough/district councils. In Wales , an almost identical two-tier system of local government existed between 1974 and 1996 (see Districts of Wales ). In 1996, this was abolished and replaced with an entirely unitary system of local government, with one level of local government responsible for all local services. Since
420-620: Was abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and the Local Government Act 1972 . Non-metropolitan districts were created by this act in 1974 when England outside Greater London was divided into metropolitan counties and non-metropolitan counties. Metropolitan counties were sub-divided into metropolitan districts and the non-metropolitan counties were sub-divided into non-metropolitan districts. The metropolitan districts had more powers than their non-metropolitan counterparts. Initially, there were 296 non-metropolitan districts in
441-499: Was added to the list. The Lord Mayors of London and York are styled The Right Honourable . All other Lord Mayors, as well as the Mayors of cities and the original Cinque Ports ( Sandwich , Hythe , Dover , Romney and Hastings ), are styled The Right Worshipful . (Bristol styles its lord mayor "Right Honourable" instead, but this usage is without official sanction.) All other Mayors are styled The Worshipful , though this
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