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The council was created on 1 April 1998 and replaced Rochester-upon-Medway City Council and Gillingham Borough Council. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2023. It meets at the St George's Centre in the Chatham Maritime area of the borough and has its main offices at Gun Wharf in Chatham.
The town hall served as the headquarters of Chatham Borough Council but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Medway Borough Council was formed in 1974 with its eventual headquarters at Gun Wharf. [14] With the promotional motto "Putting The Arts Back Into The Medway", the town hall became the Medway Arts Centre in May ...
Medway is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent in South East England. It was formed in 1998 by merging the boroughs of Rochester-upon-Medway and Gillingham, and is administered by Medway Council, which is independent from Kent County Council. The borough had a population of 278,016 in 2019. [2]
Medway Archives holds the archives for Rochester upon Medway City Council and its predecessor authorities. The archives are held at the Civic Centre, Strood, Rochester , and run by Medway Council . [ 1 ]
Medway Community College was a community school directly controlled by Medway Council. The school converted into a Church of England academy in September 2010, [4] and was renamed Bishop of Rochester Academy. The school was sponsored by the Diocese of Rochester, Canterbury Christ Church University and Medway Council.
Medway Council demolished the John Hawkins flyover in Chatham town centre to make room for the bus station. [1] The main operators at the bus station are Arriva Southern Counties and Nu-Venture. The bus station has 19 stands on four platforms. Bus services run from the bus station around the Medway area and to parts of Kent.
This resulted in the previously oversized Rochester and Chatham being split in half, with the city of Rochester becoming part of the new seat of Medway, along with the rural Hoo Peninsula (previously part of the Gravesend constituency) while town of Chatham became part of the new seat of Mid Kent, along with the northern portion of Maidstone.
The long military history of the towns has dominated the history of the site and the park. The Great Lines Heritage Park, consists of Fort Amherst, Chatham Lines, the Field of Fire (later known as the Great Lines), Inner Lines, Medway Park (sports centre) together with the Lower Lines. The Lines, were constructed in Napoleonic times. They were ...