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The modern city council was established in 1974, with the first elections being held in advance in 1973. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough Urban District, Horsforth Urban District, Otley Urban District, Garforth Urban District, Rothwell Urban ...
The money is held in a bank account by the Scheme and transferred directly to the tenant once both parties agree on the total sum of money to release. When the deposit is under an insurance-based scheme, the landlord or the letting agent will hold the deposit but have to pay a fee to ensure the landlord will not illegally retain the deposit at ...
As a metropolitan county, West Yorkshire does not have a county council, so Leeds City Council is the primary provider of local government services. The district forms part of the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. Most of the district is an unparished area, comprising Leeds itself (the area of the former county borough), Pudsey ...
In January 1914, around 300 tenants living in the Burley area of Leeds went on rent strike against a 6d increase in rents imposed by the landlords. A week later, the Leeds Trades Council hosted a Labour conference intended to organise mass rent resistance, and this formed a Tenants' Defence League.
The Borough of Leeds was created in 1207, when Maurice Paynel, Lord of the Manor, granted a charter to the inhabitants of the town of Leeds. They were created "burgesses", and were given the right to hold half an acre of land, trade as they liked, and transport their goods by land or water, subject to tolls and restrictions paid to the manor.
Leeds Civic Hall is a municipal building located in the civic quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It replaced Leeds Town Hall as the administrative centre in 1933. [ 2 ] The Civic Hall houses Leeds City Council offices, council chamber and a banqueting hall, and is a Grade II* listed building . [ 3 ]
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council.The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2]
Middleton Park, once the private estate of the lords of the manor of Middleton, is owned by Wade's Charity and leased to Leeds City Council for a peppercorn rent. [61] It has been one of Leeds many public parks since 1919 covering an area of nearly a square mile, 630 acres (2.5 km 2 ), of which 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) are of ancient woodland .