Английская Википедия:Buckinghamshire Council

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Buckinghamshire Council is a unitary local authority in England, the area of which constitutes most of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire. It was created in April 2020 from the areas that were previously administered by Buckinghamshire County Council including the districts of South Bucks, Chiltern, Wycombe and Aylesbury Vale; since 1997 Milton Keynes has been a separate unitary authority.

History

Шаблон:See also The plan for a single unitary authority was proposed by Martin Tett, leader of the county council, and was backed in January 2019 by Communities Secretary James Brokenshire. District councils had also proposed a different plan in which Aylesbury Vale became a unitary authority and the other three districts became another unitary authority. The district councils opposed the (single) unitary Buckinghamshire plan.

Statutory instruments for a single unitary authority were made on 22 May 2019 and a shadow authority comprising all 202 councillors from the old county council and four district councils was subsequently formed.

At the first meeting of the shadow authority, Richard Scott was elected chair of the authority and Martin Tett as chair of the seventeen member shadow executive committee.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the first election to the council which had been due to take place in 2020 was postponed until the 2021 local elections. It was therefore announced on 18 March 2020 that all the current shadow authority members would automatically become councillors and the shadow executive members would form the cabinet. They would stay in post until the inaugural election took place in May 2021.

The new authority came into being on 1 April 2020.

Political control

Шаблон:See also Since its creation in 2020, the Conservatives have held a majority of the seats on the council:

Party in control		Years
Шаблон:Party name with colour	2020–present

Leadership

The leader of the council from its creation in 2020 is:

Councillor	Party		From	To
Martin Tett	Шаблон:Party name with colour	1 Apr 2020

Martin Tett had previously been leader of Buckinghamshire County Council since 2011.

Composition

As at November 2023, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors
Шаблон:Party name with colour	111
Шаблон:Party name with colour	16
Шаблон:Party name with colour	7
Шаблон:Party name with colour	6
Шаблон:Party name with colour	4
Шаблон:Party name with colour	2
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1
Total		147

The Liberal Democrats and Wycombe Independents sit together as the "Alliance Grouping". Labour, the Green Party, Independent Network and six of the seven independent councillors form the "Impact Alliance". The other independent councillor does not belong to a group. The next election is due in 2025.

Premises

The council has its headquarters and meeting place at The Gateway on Gatehouse Road in Aylesbury, being the former Aylesbury Vale District Council building, prior to which it was the offices of Rexel. The building had been built in the 1990s as offices and was bought and substantially extended in 2008–2009 by Aylesbury Vale District Council, with the extensions including a council chamber.

Logo

The logo of Buckinghamshire Council consists of a blue circle with a white swan flying above hills, with a row of three trees. The words 'Buckinghamshire Council' and 'est.2020' are written above and below respectively.

See also

• 2019–2023 structural changes to local government in England

External links

• Шаблон:Official website