26-531: Yearby is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire , England. It is located half a mile south of Kirkleatham on the B1269 road to Guisborough, close to Marske-by-the-Sea . Historically the village has been a part of the Kirkleatham civil parish . The name has changed through the centuries from Overby or Ureby in the 15th century to Earby and Verby in
52-487: A Community Benefit Society with 15,000 properties across Teesside and North Yorkshire. The council maintains a number of Local nature reserves . These are Guisborough Branch Walkway, Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park and Rosecroft Wood, Loftus Wood, Whitecliff Wood, Clarksons Wood, Errington Wood and Eston Moor . There are five civil parishes in the borough. The parish councils for Guisborough and Loftus have declared their parishes to be towns, allowing them to take
78-482: A unitary authority since 1996. The borough was created in 1974 as Langbaurgh , and was one of four boroughs in the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland . It was renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees in 1988, and given its present name when Cleveland was abolished in 1996; the borough was made a unitary authority in the same year. Redcar and Cleveland is part of the Tees Valley combined authority , which also includes
104-708: A council chamber, mayor's parlour, register services, meeting rooms, 44 business units, as well as sport and leisure facilities. When first created in 1974 the council used Eston Town Hall on Fabian Road in Teesville as its headquarters, which had been built in 1961 for the old Eston Urban District Council . In 1981 the council also bought the former headquarters of the Cargo Fleet Iron Company in South Bank , which had been built in 1916. The Cargo Fleet building closed in 2002 and Eston Town Hall
130-604: A minority Labour administration since 2023. It is based at the Civic Centre in Redcar . The district and its council were created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , as one of four districts within the new county of Cleveland . The new district covered the whole area of four former districts and part of a fifth, all of which were abolished at the same time: The district was named Langbaurgh after
156-419: Is twinned with: Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is the local authority for Redcar and Cleveland , a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire , England. Since 1996 the council has been a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council . The council
182-474: The 2023 election a minority Labour administration took control of the council. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows: Langbaurgh (lower-tier district) Redcar and Cleveland (unitary authority) The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Redcar and Cleveland. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council . The leaders since 2007 have been: Following
208-437: The 2023 election and subsequent changes of allegiance, the composition of the council was: Of the 13 independent councillors, 11 sit together as the "Independent Group". The next election is due in 2027. Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 59 councillors representing 24 wards , with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years. The council meets at
234-622: The 17th century. For much of its history, the lands comprising Yearby have followed the path of Kirkleatham, except between 1119 and 1635. After this date, it formed part of the Kirkleatham Estate owned by the Turner family until it was broken up in 1949. Until 1840, the village had a school. This is now a private dwelling, though a Grade II listed building. The village is within the Redcar Parliamentary constituency and
260-416: The Civic Centre on Ridley Street in Redcar. It has its main offices in the adjoining Redcar and Cleveland House at the corner of Ridley Street and Kirkleatham Street, which was built in 1996 to accommodate the extra staff the council took on when it became a unitary authority. The Civic Centre opened in 2014 as part of a £31 million development called the "Leisure and Community Heart", which incorporates
286-482: The Dormanstown ward of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council. [REDACTED] Media related to Yearby at Wikimedia Commons This Redcar and Cleveland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Redcar and Cleveland Redcar and Cleveland is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire , England. Its council has been
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#1732791302223312-615: The UK's first wood-fired power station (Wilton 10), UK Wood Recycling Limited have a significant facility on the site providing waste wood to fuel Wilton 10. The Teesside Steelworks operated Europe's second largest blast furnace . The majority of the steelworks (including the Redcar blast furnace, Redcar and South Bank coke ovens and the BOS plant at Lackenby) closed in 2015, but the Teesside Beam Mill still operates, producing beams for
338-403: The ancient Langbaurgh Wapentake . The county borough of Teesside had only been created six years earlier in 1968; the wards from Teesside which became part of Langbaurgh broadly corresponded to the pre-1968 municipal borough of Redcar, urban district of Eston and parish of Ormesby. The first election was held in in 1973 . For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside
364-432: The area's outgoing authorities. The new district and its council formally came into being on 1 April 1974, at which point the old districts and their councils were abolished. The district was granted borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. The council changed the district's name from Langbaurgh to Langbaurgh-on-Tees with effect from 1 January 1988. From 1974 until 1996
390-566: The borough are included in civil parishes , which form a second tier of local government for their areas. The north-west of the borough, corresponding to the parts that were in the County Borough of Teesside between 1968 and 1974, is an unparished area . Since 2016 the council has been a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority . The council has been under no overall control since 2013. Following
416-432: The borough was renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees. Cleveland County was abolished on 1 April 1996, with its districts becoming unitary authority areas. At this time Langbaurgh-on-Tees was renamed Redcar and Cleveland. Cleveland County was a two-tier local authority, with the county council being superior to its four districts, of which Langbaurgh-on-Tees was one. Upon becoming a unitary authority, Langbaurgh-on-Tees Borough Council
442-410: The borough, but with no separate county council; instead the existing borough council took on county-level functions. At the same time the borough was transferred for ceremonial purposes to North Yorkshire , but as a unitary authority it has always been independent from North Yorkshire Council . Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council provides both county-level and district-level services. Parts of
468-485: The boroughs of Darlington , Middlesbrough , Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees ; the latter three were also formerly in Cleveland. Its main settlement is the town of Redcar . Other notable towns and villages include South Bank , Eston , Brotton , Guisborough , Greater Eston , Loftus , Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Skelton . The district was created in 1974 as the borough of Langbaurgh, one of four districts of
494-572: The construction industry. Coast and Country took over the ownership and management of homes from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council in July 2002. In addition to providing core housing services the company has also invested in independent living services, including the development of a new Telecare service in partnership with the Borough Council. In 2018, Coast and Country merged with Yorkshire Coast Homes to form Beyond Housing Limited,
520-408: The council provided only district-level services, with county-level services provided by Cleveland County Council . The county and its council were abolished in 1996 and the area's four boroughs became unitary authorities. The way this change was implemented was to rename the existing borough Redcar and Cleveland, and create a new non-metropolitan county of Redcar and Cleveland covering the same area as
546-614: The greater district of the town of Redcar is the Chemical Industry located close to Wilton village on the Chemical Industry Park known internationally as Wilton. The chemical companies are all members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). The Wilton chemical site is owned by Singaporean utility company Sembcorp and companies operating there include SABIC who have recently built
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#1732791302223572-550: The new non-metropolitan county of Cleveland . It was formed from the Coatham, Eston Grange, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar and South Bank wards of the County Borough of Teesside , along with Guisborough , Loftus , Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea and Skelton and Brotton urban districts , from the North Riding of Yorkshire . The borough was named after the ancient Langbaurgh wapentake of Yorkshire . On 1 January 1988
598-655: The style "town council". The north-west of the borough, corresponding to the parts that were in the County Borough of Teesside between 1968 and 1974 (including Redcar and Eston and adjoining areas), is an unparished area . The parishes are: As of 2024, the borough has 24 wards represented by 59 councillors. These are named: Belmont, Brotton , Coatham , Dormanstown , Eston , Grangetown , Guisborough , Hutton , Kirkleatham , Lockwood , Loftus , Longbeck, Newcomen, Normanby , Ormesby , Saltburn , Skelton East, Skelton West, South Bank , St Germain's, Teesville , West Dyke, Wheatlands, and Zetland. Redcar and Cleveland
624-466: The world's largest low-density polyethylene plant (LDPE) and still operate an ethylene cracker. Lotte Chemicals are expanding both PTA and PET production. Huntsman manufacture polyurethane intermediates and Ensus have built Europe's largest bioethanol facility. Biffa Polymers now operate a polymer recycling plant that handles up to 30% of the UKs plastic milk bottles. While in support of Sembcorp, who built
650-459: Was created in 1974 as Langbaurgh Borough Council and was a lower-tier authority until 1996 when it was renamed and became a unitary authority, taking over county-level functions from the abolished Cleveland County Council . Since 2016 the council has been a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority , which has been led by the directly elected Tees Valley Mayor since 2017. The council has been under no overall control since 2013, being led by
676-707: Was renamed Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and acquired all the full rights and duties as a county, whilst retaining the same boundaries as before. The borough had a population of 135,200 in 2011. This is a chart of trend of regional gross 'value added' of South Teesside at current basic prices by the Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. ^ includes hunting and forestry ^ includes energy and construction ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding The main industry within
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