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Newcastle City Council is the local authority for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. Newcastle has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council.
Following a period working for Surrey County Council, he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne City Council as its chief planning officer in 1960. [1] At Newcastle, he took charge of a newly created department—one of the first planning departments in the country—and worked closely with the city council's political leader, T. Dan Smith.
Newcastle City Council granted planning permission in 2017 for an 82-metre-tall (269 ft) residential block to be called Hadrian's Tower on Rutherford Street in Newcastle city centre, [2] which became the new tallest on its completion in 2020.
There are 75 Grade I listed buildings in Tyne and Wear, England.. In England and Wales the authority for listing is granted by the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and is administered by English Heritage, an agency of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Scheme for the Application or Management of the following Charities in the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne:— The Charity called The Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, comprised in the Saint Mary Magdalene Hospital Act, 1867, 30 and 31 Vict. c. vii (Local) [ b ] as amended by the Saint Mary Magdalene Hospital (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Act ...
The North East Combined Authority (NECA) is a combined authority in North East England.It has a directly-elected Mayor and seven member councils: two are unitary authorities (Durham and Northumberland) and five are metropolitan borough councils (Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland).
When the Labour Party won the 1958 local elections and took control of Newcastle, Smith was appointed Chairman of the Housing Committee. He was elected as Leader of the City Council in 1959, and created one of the country's first free-standing Planning Departments and made it the most powerful department in the council. [11]
In 1996, Newcastle City Council, English Heritage and English Partnerships commissioned EDAW [clarification needed] to produce a regeneration strategy for Grainger Town, intended to align the town with other major European regional capitals. The proposed project commenced in April 1997 and ended in March 2003, attracting over £174 million in ...