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37-552: Local Government Commission may refer to: Local Government Commission for England (1958–1967) Local Government Commission for England (1992) Local Government Commission (Ireland) Local Government Commission (New Zealand) Local Government Commission (Sacramento, California) North Carolina Local Government Commission See also [ edit ] Local Government Board (disambiguation) Local Government Boundary Commission (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

74-472: A county borough in 1964, and the extensions to Northampton and Leicester were made in 1966 and 1967 respectively. The area consisted of the administrative counties of Cornwall , Devon , Gloucestershire and Somerset ; the Isles of Scilly ; and the county boroughs of Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester and Plymouth . The commission's proposals included the creation of two new county boroughs: one based on

111-525: A number of district and parish councils in that county as well as local individuals and organisations. In August 1963 it was announced that the merger would not go ahead. The other two mergers of administrative counties did take place, with the creation of new administrative counties of Huntingdon and Peterborough and Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely (excluding Royston) in 1965. A larger non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, covering all four administrative counties, would be formed in 1974. Luton became

148-573: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Local Government Commission for England (1958%E2%80%931967) The initial members of the commission were appointed by warrant dated 31 October 1958. The chairman was Sir Henry Drummond Hancock and the deputy chairman was Michael Edward Rowe. The other members of the commission were Ruth Burton Buckley, Bernard Donald Storey and Ernest William Woodhead. They were joined on 14 January 1959 by Professor Ely Devons and on 15 July 1959 by Robert Hughes Parry. On

185-558: The Blackpool Urban Area which covers all the unitary authority area. Blackpool was a municipal borough until 1889 when it became a county borough , on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 , the county borough of Blackpool was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district with the same boundaries as the county borough. Until 1998, Blackpool was administered as part of Lancashire County Council which

222-695: The Metropolitan Area which was under review by the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London. † An enquiry into the Commission recommendations was ordered to be held, commencing on 18 October 1961. ‡ An enquiry into the Commission recommendations was ordered to be held, commencing on 23 March 1964. The North-Western GRA consisted of the administrative counties of Cheshire , Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland (except those areas in

259-668: The Metropolitan Area . On 10 February 1966, the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson announced in the Commons the appointment of a Royal Commission chaired by Lord Redcliffe-Maud , to review the structure of local government in England more radically. The reviews were formally brought to an end in 1967 by the Local Government (Termination of Reviews) Act 1967 , which dissolved the commission. Most outstanding recommendations were abandoned by

296-548: The Soke of Peterborough (or rather, to Huntingdon and Peterborough ), most of Marshland Rural District to be transferred to Cambridgeshire from Norfolk, and that the area of Cambridgeshire around Newmarket should be transferred to West Suffolk. These proposals were toned down or withdrawn in the final proposals. Inquiries were held on some of the proposed changes (the extension of Norwich, demotion of Yarmouth and amalgamation of Holland and Kesteven), but no alterations were made in

333-553: The Gloucestershire/Somerset Devon/Cornwall county boundaries. The draft proposals had not recommended the creation of these county boroughs. Of the two proposed county boroughs, only the Devon one was formed, as Torbay , in 1967. None of the extensions of existing county boroughs was made, and no alteration in the boundary between Gloucestershire and Somerset was made. The county boundary between Devon and Cornwall

370-452: The Merseyside and South East Lancashire SRAs), and the county boroughs of Barrow-in-Furness , Blackburn , Blackpool , Burnley , Carlisle , Chester , Preston , St. Helens , Southport , Warrington and Wigan . The Southern GRA consisted of the administrative counties of Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Dorset , Hampshire , Isle of Wight , Oxfordshire and Wiltshire , along with

407-554: The Minister in late 1965. On 14 December 1965, the Minister, Richard Crossman , proposed a large single county borough of Tyneside, which would have had a population of 900,000, making it the second largest in England after Birmingham . He wrote to authorities asking for comments ahead of a public inquiry in March. On 3 March 1966, the Minister for Housing and Local Government , being "of

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444-458: The North Riding became part of North Yorkshire in 1974. The area consisted of the administrative counties of Lincolnshire, Parts of Holland , Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven , Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey , Norfolk , East Suffolk and West Suffolk ; and the county boroughs of Great Yarmouth , Grimsby , Ipswich , Lincoln and Norwich . The Commission recommended the amalgamation of

481-482: The abolition of two small urban districts in Herefordshire in 1968. The proposals to make Burton upon Trent and Worcester into non-county boroughs were not implemented : Burton had brought a court case challenging the action. The area consisted of the administrative counties of Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire , Isle of Ely , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough ; and

518-475: The administrative county of North Riding of Yorkshire and those parts of the counties of Durham and Northumberland not part of the Tyneside special review area; and the county boroughs of Darlington , Middlesbrough , Sunderland and West Hartlepool . The commission's proposals included the creation of a new County Borough of Teesside including Middlesbrough and other adjacent boroughs and urban districts,

555-476: The administrative county of Yorkshire West Riding be transferred to the North Riding. The area concerned was: Part of the administrative county of Yorkshire North Riding was to be transferred to the East Riding, namely: The expansions of county boroughs proposed were Ideas not taken up included the amalgamation of the three Yorkshire administrative counties to form a single administrative county of Yorkshire and

592-580: The core of the wider Blackpool conurbation . The borough is bordered to the north and north-east by the Borough of Wyre (including Fleetwood , Cleveleys , Thornton and Poulton-le-Fylde ), and to the south and south-east by Borough of Fylde (including Lytham St Annes ), both of which are non-metropolitan districts in Lancashire. The western boundary is the Irish Sea coast. Surrounding districts form part of

629-527: The counties of Holland and Kesteven, but the retention of two county councils for Suffolk. The report called for the enlargement of four of the county boroughs (with Grimsby absorbing the non-county borough of Cleethorpes), with the fifth, Great Yarmouth being reduced to a municipal borough in the county of Norfolk. Changes in county boundaries proposed would have led to an area of East Suffolk adjoining Great Yarmouth passing to Norfolk. The draft proposals had also suggested that Stamford and area be transferred to

666-402: The county and borough tiers. The final proposal was published on 16 July 1963, and proposed a Tyneside county roughly as follows :- Following a number of objections, an inquiry was held into the proposals in 1964. Newcastle City Council wanted a single county borough , whilst the other county borough councils wished to see an area of contiguous county boroughs. The decision was put to

703-417: The county boroughs of Barnsley , Derby , Doncaster , Kingston-upon-Hull , Nottingham , Rotherham , Sheffield and York . The commission recommended that the county borough of Barnsley be reduced to a non-county borough in the administrative county of Yorkshire West Riding, and that all the remaining county boroughs continue to exist, all with extended boundaries. It was also recommended that part of

740-461: The county boroughs of Bournemouth , Oxford , Portsmouth , Reading and Southampton . No reviews were commenced for the administrative counties of Essex , Hertfordshire , Kent , Surrey , East or West Sussex , or in the county boroughs of Brighton , Canterbury , Eastbourne , Hastings or Southend-on-Sea . Parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey (including the county boroughs of East Ham , West Ham and Croydon ) were included in

777-510: The county boroughs of Leicester and Northampton . The review area included some of the smallest (in both area and population) administrative counties in England. Draft proposals were quite radical, as follows These proposals were greatly controversial (especially in Rutland, which put forth a counter-suggestions to add surrounding areas to Rutland instead from surrounding counties) and the final proposals were watered down somewhat Extension of

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814-468: The creation of five enlarged county boroughs in the Black Country, based on the existing county boroughs of Dudley , Smethwick , Walsall , West Bromwich and Wolverhampton . Solihull was also to be constituted a county borough, while Aldridge and Brownhills urban districts were to merge to form Aldridge-Brownhills and a new non-county borough was to be formed from the borough of Stourbridge and

851-442: The death of Woodhead, Leslie Robert Missen was made a member. The last member to be appointed was Professor Bryan Keith-Lucas on 24 June 1965. The Commission carried out reviews of two types of areas: five Special Review Areas, covering the major conurbations outside London, and seven General Review Areas, covering regions comprising a number of administrative counties and county boroughs . The commission's remit did not extend to

888-482: The enlargement of the county boroughs of Bradford and Leeds , the amalgamation of a number of county districts to form three new districts, and the creation of a new non-county borough. The area consisted of the administrative counties of Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire , Yorkshire East Riding , and the part of Yorkshire West Riding not included in the West Yorkshire Special Review Area; and

925-487: The existing borough of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire (also including Charlton Kings urban district), the other to be formed from the areas of the borough of Torquay , the urban districts of Brixham and Paignton , and parts of Newton Abbot and Totnes rural districts in Devon. Extensions were also recommended for the existing county boroughs of Bristol, Gloucester, Bath and Exeter, and alterations were proposed for

962-782: The government. The commission's reports made a number of recommendations for the completed reviews. Only some of these were carried into effect. The special review area had been defined in Schedule 3 of the Local Government Act 1958 . It comprised the conurbation of Birmingham and the Black Country , and included six county boroughs, four non-county boroughs and ten urban districts in the administrative county of Staffordshire , three boroughs in Worcestershire and two boroughs and two rural parishes in Warwickshire. The commission recommended

999-498: The local government of the area until 1974. County Borough of Blackpool The Borough of Blackpool is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Lancashire , North West England . It is named after the seaside town of Blackpool but covers a wider area which includes Anchorsholme , Bispham , Layton , Marton and Squires Gate . As well as the suburbs of Grange Park , North Shore , South Shore and Starr Gate . The borough also forms

1036-467: The merger of the county borough of West Hartlepool with the non-county borough of Hartlepool and part of Stockton Rural District , and the extension of the areas of Sunderland and Darlington county boroughs. The proposals were carried out in 1967. The West Yorkshire SRA had been defined in the 1958 Act, covering the western industrialised part of the West Riding of Yorkshire . The commission proposed

1073-598: The opinion that the proposals of the Commission ;... are not apt for the purpose of securing effective and local government in the area" formally rejected the commission's scheme, and substituted his own proposal. The county borough was not formed, and local government in the area remained unchanged until the Local Government Act 1972 included Tyneside in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear , along with Sunderland from Wearside . The area consisted of

1110-817: The parts included in the West Midlands SRA), and the county boroughs of Burton upon Trent , Coventry , Stoke-on-Trent and Worcester . The main changes implemented in the area were the realignment of the Staffordshire/Warwickshire county boundary in the Tamworth area, with the abolition of the Tamworth Rural District and extension of the borough of Tamworth in 1965; the inclusion of a number of small urban districts and boroughs (which became rural boroughs) in rural districts in Shropshire in 1967; and

1147-440: The request of Chesterfield to become a county borough. A draft proposal for an area of 100 km with a population of 34,000, including Swadlincote to be transferred to Leicestershire was withdrawn in the final recommendations. None of these recommendations was put into force. Objections were voiced to the extensions of Nottingham, Sheffield and York county boroughs into adjoining areas. The area proposed to become part of

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1221-526: The transfer). Ambitions of Wiltshire on Frome and Dorset on Yeovil were rejected. The proposal for a Cheltenham county borough was rejected in October 1965. The Tyneside SRA had been defined in the 1958 Act, and consisted of the Tyneside conurbation. The commission recommended in 1963 the creation of a new County of Tyneside, divided into four boroughs. There was to be a redistribution of services between

1258-512: The two county boroughs of Leicester and Northampton was also recommended, and that the existing borough of Luton in Bedfordshire be constituted a county borough, but declined to recommend that Dunstable should be added to Luton. The proposal to merge Leicestershire and Rutland remained controversial, and an inquiry into objections made to this part of the report was held between 17 and 26 July 1962. Objections were voiced by Rutland County Council,

1295-488: The urban district of Amblecote. Draft proposals had Halesowen becoming part of the Smethwick borough. The recommendations were largely implemented in 1966, with Solihull becoming a county borough in 1964. The enlarged county borough based on Smethwick was named Warley . The area consisted of the administrative counties of Herefordshire , Salop (or Shropshire ), Warwickshire , Staffordshire and Worcestershire (except

1332-510: Was based in Preston . After the creation of unitary authorities by the government, Blackpool and Blackburn were successful in gaining their own right to govern independent from the county council. Blackpool gained unitary authority status, as did Blackburn and it was renamed "Blackburn with Darwen". As of 2021 these are the only two unitary authorities in Lancashire although they remain part of Lancashire for ceremonial purposes. Blackpool borough

1369-407: Was realigned by the abolition of Broadwoodwidger Rural District in 1966. A number of small urban districts and boroughs were merged into rural districts in Devon in 1967 and Cornwall in 1968, under reviews made by the two county councils. The final proposals also proposed transferring Lyme Regis from Dorset to Devon (with the backing of the local council which made a "unanimous decision" to seek

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