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North Somerset Council is the local authority of North Somerset, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The council is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The council has been under no overall control since 2019.
North Somerset is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The council is based in Weston-super-Mare , the area's largest town. The district also contains the towns of Clevedon , Nailsea and Portishead , along with a number of villages and surrounding rural areas.
The existing unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset were not affected by any of these proposals. In October 2020, the UK government invited proposals for reform of arrangements in Somerset by 2023. [12] There were two rival proposals: a single unitary council, or two unitary councils (east and west). [25]
North Somerset Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of North Somerset, England. Until 1 April 1996 it was a non-metropolitan district called Woodspring, in the county of Avon . Council elections
A round of local government reorganisation took place in England between 2019 and 2023 during the Conservative governments of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.Here several large unitary authorities were created between either by abolition of district councils, (in Somerset, Dorset, Buckinghamshire and North Yorkshire), or by the abolition of county councils and grouping of districts into new ...
North Somerset Council is elected every 4 years, with all council seats being up for election. Following the 2019 election a rainbow coalition consisting of the North Somerset Independent Group, the Liberal Democrats, the Labour Party, the Portishead Independents and the Green Party had formed, initially led by Independent Group leader, Don Davies.
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Somerset in South West England.All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown.
North Somerset is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Sadik Al-Hassan of the Labour Party. [ n 2 ] History