26-724: M57 or M-57 may refer to: Transport [ edit ] M-57 (Michigan highway) , a state highway in Michigan M57 motorway , a motorway in England M57 (Cape Town) , a Metropolitan Route in Cape Town, South Africa M57 (Johannesburg) , a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa M57, a New York City Bus route in Manhattan Weapons [ edit ] M57, variant of
52-423: A third tier of local government. The county council has been under Conservative majority control since 2017. Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms has been as follows: The leaders of the council since 1974 have been: Following the 2021 election and subsequent by-elections and changes of allegiance up to April 2024, the composition of the council was as follows: The next election
78-528: A wide central reservation which allowed for future carriageway widening. The scheme was proceeded with more rapidly as there had been industrial growth in the area, and it was considered important to improve traffic connections as soon as possible. The original plans for the route anticipated an extension south to the A562 . The road opened to traffic in April 1972, three months ahead of schedule. Shortly before opening,
104-594: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages M57 motorway The M57 motorway , also known as the Liverpool Outer Ring Road, is a motorway in England. Designed as a ring road for Liverpool , it is 10 miles (16 km) long between Tarbock Green and Switch lsland, and links various towns east of the city, as well as the M62 and M58 motorways. Starting at
130-568: Is due in 2025. Since the last boundary changes in 2017 the council has comprised 84 councillors representing 82 electoral divisions . Most divisions elect one councillor, but two divisions elect two councillors each. Elections are held every four years. There are sixteen parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire. The Conservative Party holds 11, the Labour Party holds four, and the Speaker of
156-467: Is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire , England. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashire is smaller than the ceremonial county , which additionally includes Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool . The council is based in County Hall, Preston , and consists of 84 councillors. Since the 2017 election , the council has been under Conservative control. Before
182-425: The 2009 Lancashire County Council election , the county had been under Labour control since 1989. The leader of the council is Conservative councillor Phillippa Williamson, appointed in 2021, chairing a cabinet of eight. The Chief Executive and Director of Resources is Angie Ridgwell, who was appointed in 2018. The council is the successor to the county council of the administrative county of Lancashire, which
208-509: The Local Government Act 1888 , taking over many administrative functions that had previously been performed by unelected magistrates at the quarter sessions . The areas covered by the new county councils were termed administrative counties . Several larger towns and cities were considered capable of providing their own county-level services and so they were excluded from the administrative county, becoming instead county boroughs . When
234-456: The MGM-140 ATACMS missile Halcón ML-57 , an Argentine submachine gun TT pistol (Yugoslavian m57), a Yugoslavian-produced TT-33 pistol model, with an added safety Zastava M57 , pistol Other [ edit ] BMW M57 , a 1998 diesel automobile engine Miles M.57 Aerovan , a 1945 British short-range, low-cost transport Messier 57 (M57), a planetary nebula also known as
260-752: The Merseyrail Northern Line before ending on Switch Island near Aintree . The motorway provides one of the main access routes to Aintree Racecourse . The M57 was planned to be a complete bypass of Liverpool, meeting some of the key routes out of the city. As is normal in the United Kingdom, the M57 was to be built in stages. The first two opened were: Phase 1 was approved by Lancashire County Council 's highways and bridges committee in April 1969, estimating to cost around £3.9 million with construction work anticipated to start several months later. By
286-635: The Ring Nebula Rangeley Lake Seaplane Base (FAA LID: M57) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M57&oldid=1103466459 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732851573321312-699: The 1990s as the A5300 . A new road was opened in August 2015 to join the A565 at Thornton to Switch Island junction at the M57 and M58 motorways respectively; the road was appropriately named the A5758 road . At the southern end of the M57 where it meets the M62 (Tarbock Island) and also the A5300 southern extension, a £38 million improvement scheme to create a free-flow link with the M62 eastbound
338-581: The House of Commons , Lindsay Hoyle , represents Chorley . The council is based at County Hall on Fishergate in Preston . The original part of the building was a courthouse completed in 1882, which also served as the meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. The building became the meeting place for the county council on its creation in 1889 and was significantly extended in 1903 and 1934 to provide additional office space. In July 2020,
364-690: The Tarbock Interchange in Tarbock , at the end of the A5300 , the motorway heads north to the east of Huyton and west of Prescot and crosses the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . It then runs across the northeast of Huyton before running west of Knowsley Village . After meeting the A580 at a split junction (numbered 4 & 5), it continues northwest through Kirkby , passes under the Kirkby and Ormskirk branches of
390-412: The county council announced that it wanted to replace itself and the 14 other councils that currently make up Lancashire's complex local government map with three standalone authorities. In September 2020 the county council submitted an outline plan to the government that outlines the proposed new unitary authorities and the areas they would cover. The new authorities would be, Central Lancashire (based on
416-400: The county council was established in 1889 there were 15 county boroughs in the wider geographic county of Lancashire: Three more towns were later elevated to become county boroughs: Warrington in 1900, Blackpool in 1904, and Southport in 1905. The 1888 Act also placed each urban sanitary district which straddled county boundaries in one administrative county, and so Lancashire gained
442-592: The end of 1969, work had not yet commenced, although the Minister of Transport Fred Mulley announced in December 1969 that a grant of around £2.9 million had been made to Lancashire County Council towards the road's cost. Following conclusion of an invitation to tender process in January 1970, construction work was expected to start around March 1970. The road was planned with dual 24 foot (7.3 m) wide carriageways and
468-434: The footprints of Preston, Chorley, South Ribble and West Lancashire councils), North West Lancashire (Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre, Lancaster and Ribble Valley) and East Pennine Lancashire (Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Rossendale, Hyndburn and Pendle). These authorities would be governed by an elected mayor, with a combined authority. The major shake up to Lancashire's council structure is in a bid to gain more funding and power for
494-558: The former amount). Another disadvantage was that government of libraries was by a libraries sub-committee of the education committee of the council (the librarian having to report to the education officer who might not have been sympathetic to libraries). The central administration of the county library is at Preston where there are special services, special collections and staff to maintain a union catalogue. "Biological heritage sites" are, according to Lancashire County Council, "'local wildlife sites' in Lancashire...(that) are identified using
520-488: The meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. John Tomlinson Hibbert , a Liberal who had previously been the Member of Parliament for Oldham , was appointed the first chairman of the council. Lancashire was reconstituted under the Local Government Act 1972 with some significant changes to its territory, notably ceding significant areas in the south to Greater Manchester and Merseyside and in
546-429: The north to Cumbria , whilst gaining more modest areas from Yorkshire to the east. In 1998 Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool were both made unitary authorities , making them independent from the county council. Lancashire County Council provides county-level services. District-level services are provided by the area's twelve district councils. Much of the county is also covered by civil parishes , which form
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#1732851573321572-539: The parts of Ashton under Lyne , Stalybridge , and Warrington which had been in Cheshire, and the parts of Mossley which had been in Cheshire and Yorkshire. Lancashire ceded its part of Todmorden to the West Riding of Yorkshire . The county council formally came into being on 1 April 1889 and held its first official meeting on 4 April 1889 at County Hall in Preston , the courthouse (completed 1882) which had served as
598-488: The people of Lancashire. Lancashire adopted the Public Libraries Act, 1919, in 1924. Library services were slow to develop as the average ratable value of the area outside the county boroughs and the other local authorities which had already adopted the act was relatively low. In 1938/39 the average expenditure on urban libraries per head was 1s. 9d., but that on county libraries was only 8 1/4d. (about two fifths of
624-521: The second phase was announced by the council as being close to starting construction, with an estimated cost of £11.5 million. At Switch Island, the junction was constructed to allow an extension of the M57 towards the A565 near Thornton and the end of the M58 has provision for slip roads to that extension to be constructed. Contemporary maps also showed a proposed southern extension, eventually constructed in
650-703: Was completed on 14 November 2008. At the same junction a free-flow link from the M62 Westbound to the M57 northbound was completed on 12 December. [REDACTED] A5300 – Liverpool(south) , Runcorn [REDACTED] A5080 – Cronton , Huyton , Whiston [REDACTED] A58 – St. Helens B5194 - Knowsley village B5194 - Knowsley village [REDACTED] A5207 – Kirkby [REDACTED] A59 – Southport , Ormskirk [REDACTED] A5036 – Bootle [REDACTED] A5758 – Southport , Formby Lancashire County Council Lancashire County Council
676-464: Was created on 1 April 1889. The council was abolished and reconstituted in 1974, when local government in England was reformed and a non-metropolitan county of Lancashire was created, governed by a county council and thirteen district councils. The districts of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen became unitary authorities in 1998, meaning they are no longer governed by Lancashire County Council. Elected county councils were created in 1889 under
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