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Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council (or simply Neath Port Talbot Council) is the local authority for the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, one of the 22 principal areas of Wales. The council was controlled by the Labour Party from its creation in 1996 until 2022, when Plaid Cymru and a group of independent councillors agreed to share power.
Neath Port Talbot (Welsh: Castell-nedd Port Talbot) is a county borough in the south-west of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath , Port Talbot , Briton Ferry and Pontardawe . The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhondda Cynon Taf to the east, Powys and Carmarthenshire to the north; and Swansea to the west.
Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
Sandfields West is a mostly urbanised ward consisting of council housing inland, private housing on the coast and areas of light industry and business park use. At the 2011 UK Census the population of the ward was 6,725 (with 5,214 of voting age).
[3] [1] Following a resolution passed by the borough council, the borough was renamed as Port Talbot on 1 January 1986. [ 4 ] On 1 April 1996 the two-tier system of councils introduced in Wales in 1974 was replaced, and the country was divided into twenty-two unitary " principal areas " by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 .
The north western area consists of areas of industrial estate land called the Baglan Industrial Park which includes a number of out of town retail premises as well as business and manufacturing premises. Aberavon is currently a ward for the purposes of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council elections.
The Neath Port Talbot and Swansea (Trebanos and Clydach) Order (SI 2002/652) The Scottish Water (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Tax Provisions) Order (SI 2002/653) The Rhondda Cynon Taff and Vale of Glamorgan (Llanharry, Pont-y-clun, Penllyn, Welsh St Donats and Pendoylan) Order (SI 2002/654) The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations (SI 2002/655)
Added some of that in. Probably needs fleshing out more, particularly the pro-council-tax argument (I'm sure the government have made some statements in defense of it!) 136.2.1.101 11:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC) -- There should be some discussion on council tax benefit which is a complicated system.