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16-554: Arlecdon is a village in the Borough of Copeland in Cumbria , England, near the town of Whitehaven . St Michael's Parish church is an historic Grade II listed church , which is located about halfway between the villages of Arlecdon and Asby. The church founded in the 12th or 13th century. The church was restored in 1776 and its nave was rebuilt in 1829. The church was extensively remodelled, and had its tower added from 1903 to 1905. However,

32-401: A result of no overall control, the largest party may attempt to govern as a minority administration. Parties may also work together to create a formal deal, which can range from a confidence and supply deal to full coalition. Deals, especially the looser kind, can occur between parties which are not traditionally aligned on a national level. For example, a minority Conservative administration

48-477: Is a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats, comparably to a hung parliament . Of the 248 councils who had members up for election in the 2019 local elections , 73 (over a quarter) resulted in a NOC administration. In the 2021 local elections , 14 resulted in no overall control. Outside of the UK, the term may be applied to other local authorities, such as the local councils of Malta and

64-749: The Conservative Party ) was elected by 15,232 votes to the Labour Party candidate Steve Gibbon's 14,259 votes. The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Copeland. No overall control In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom and local government in Australia , no overall control (abbreviated to NOC ; Welsh : dim rheolaeth gyffredinol )

80-611: The General Assembly of Budapest in Hungary . Typically, if no party achieves overall control of a council, the largest grouping will form alliances to create an ad hoc governing coalition . Often local authorities have larger proportions of smaller party and independent members than the House of Commons , and when there is no overall control this often results in minor groups having more influence than their numbers alone would suggest. In

96-507: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced that in April 2023, Cumbria would be reorganised into two unitary authorities . On 1 April 2023, Copeland Borough Council was abolished and its functions were transferred to the new unitary authority Cumberland , which also covers the former districts of Allerdale and Carlisle . In 2014 the borough of Copeland was found to have

112-406: The borough, leading to Copeland being described as 'a community of two-halves'. Elections to the borough council were held every four years, with 51 councillors being elected at each election. From the first election in 1973 the council had been under Labour control, apart from between 1976 and 1979 when it was under no overall control . At the time of the final election in 2019 the council

128-462: The case of a majority of independents, who commonly have no collective policies when elected. This can also arise when the council members divide on other than party lines. For instance, the 2004 elections to the Isle of Anglesey County Council returned more independents than all others put together, but only Plaid Cymru maintained a party group within the council, and not all of its elected members joined

144-528: The church is to close, and the bells hopefully re-used in another church. The village also has a 19th-century primary school and an old Sunday school . Arlecdon comes from the Old English 'earn-lāce denu', meaning 'eagle-stream valley'. This Cumbria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Copeland, Cumbria Asian = 0.8% Black =0.3% Multiracial =0.7% Other groups=0.3% Arab =0.1% The Borough of Copeland

160-404: The church retains its chancel arch of c. 1630, which incorporates parts of the original 12th-century arch. The church's octagonal font is dated 1578. The church contains a stained glass window dedicated to Isaac Fletcher of Frizington. In 1904 the church was remodelled, with the addition of a bell tower and eight bells cast by John Taylor & Son of Loughborough. In 2014 it was announced that

176-577: The fattest population in England with a percentage of 75.9% being either overweight or obese (BMI greater than 25) according to official PHE statistics . In 2018 Copeland had the third highest median income of UK local authorities, after the City of London and Tower Hamlets . However this median hides the wide differences in income between those who work at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site and elsewhere in

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192-527: The group. The remainder of the council, including some members of other political parties, formed four non-partisan groups, none of which held a majority. The 2008 elections resulted in a group called the Original Independents gaining an overall majority. No overall control is more common in Northern Ireland and Scotland , in part due to their usage of single transferable vote as opposed to

208-517: Was a local government district with borough status in western Cumbria , England . Its council was based in Whitehaven . It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Whitehaven , Ennerdale Rural District and Millom Rural District . The population of the Non-Metropolitan district was 69,318 according to the 2001 census , increasing to 70,603 at the 2011 Census. The name

224-603: Was composed of the following councillors: On 22 May 2014 a referendum was carried out in the borough to change the style of governance in Copeland to a directly elected mayor, after campaigners from the Time For Change team successfully obtained enough signatures from 5% of the electorate in a petition. The referendum result was: For: 12,671; Against: 5,489. The first election for mayor was held on 7 May 2015 and Mike Starkie (elected as an Independent candidate, but later joining

240-509: Was derived from an alternative name for the Cumberland ward of Allerdale above Derwent, which covered roughly the same area. There are different explanations for the name. According to a document issued at the time of the borough's grant of arms, the name is derived from kaupland , meaning "bought land," referring to an area of the Forest bought from the estate of St Bees Priory . In July 2021

256-648: Was formed in 2019 in Bolton supported by the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, whilst a Labour-UKIP formal coalition existed in Basildon . Following the 2017 Aberdeen City Council election , all nine Labour councillors were expelled from the party for entering into a coalition with the Conservatives. It is possible for a council to be under no overall control even when there appears to be an overall majority, in particular in

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