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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.
There are 878 communities in Wales, [10] however only 734 communities have a community council (also styled as a "town council" for some communities). The current configuration of communities was established in the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 , while the framework was established earlier in the Local Government Act 1972 .
In 1991 Neath & Port Talbot was a distinct travel to work area (albeit with different boundaries to the current county borough), but the 2001-based revision has merged the locality into a wider Swansea Bay travel to work area. [11] In June 2008, the economic activity and employment rates in Neath Port Talbot were below the Welsh average. [12]
The new district covered the area of the former municipal borough of Neath, along with most of Neath Rural District, excluding the Rhigos parish, which went to Cynon Valley district. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1996 it merged with the district of Port Talbot to form Neath Port Talbot County Borough .
Aberavon Ward is bounded by the wards of Sandfields West and Sandfields East to the south-west; Baglan to the north; Port Talbot to the east and Margam to the south. The ward boundaries are defined by the roads surrounding it: the M4 Motorway to the north east; the A4241 to the north-west; Afan Way to the south-west and the River Afan to the ...
The Borough of Afan was created by the amalgamation of the areas of the municipal borough of Port Talbot and the urban district of Glyncorrwg, both previously part of the administrative county of Glamorgan. [3] [1] Following a resolution passed by the borough council, the borough was renamed as Port Talbot on 1 January 1986. [4]
Glyncorrwg is also the name of an electoral ward and formerly a community covering the village and surrounding countryside, in Neath Port Talbot county borough. Glyncorrwg is part of the community known as the Afan Valleys, which also contains the villages of Abergwynfi , Blaengwynfi , Croeserw , Cymmer , Abercregan , Duffryn and Glyncorwg itself.
Employment rate in Wales was 64.9% in April-June 1992 and ... which includes lower corporation tax rates to stimulate ... Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot: €6.016 bn: