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The borough council was created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as a lower-tier district council with borough status. Gwent County Council provided county-level services for the area. [4] The county council was abolished in 1996 and Torfaen became a principal area with county borough status, with the council taking over the ...
Torfaen is a unitary authority in South East Wales. ... Torfaen County Borough Council; List of communities in Wales References. All population figures are from ...
This is a list of places in the Torfaen county borough, south Wales. Principal towns. Abersychan; Blaenafon; Cwmbran; Pontypool; Villages and other named communities
Torfaen (/ t ɔːr ˈ v aɪ n /; [tɔrˈvaɪn]) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales.Torfaen is bordered by the county of Monmouthshire to the east, the city of Newport to the south, and the county boroughs of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent to the south-west and north-west.
Torfaen County Borough Council elections (1 C, 3 P) Tourist attractions in Torfaen (5 C, 12 P) Transport in Torfaen (3 C, 7 P)
Under the 1940 act, a county manager was the manager of every borough or municipal town in that county, but from the 1990s had the power to delegate these functions to any other officer of that borough or town council. The Borough of Dún Laoghaire, with nearly the level of autonomy as a county borough, had a borough manager from its 1930 creation.
County Dublin was divided into three electoral counties, each with its own council: Dublin–Fingal (24 members), Dublin–Belgard (26 members), and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (28 members). [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Elections were to be administered through these electoral counties, rather than to the County Council or the Borough Council of Dún Laoghaire.
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