Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The council was based at the Civic Centre on Windmillhill Street in Motherwell. The building was built between 1965 and 1970 for the former Motherwell and Wishaw Town Council. [6] [7] After the council's abolition in 1996 the building became the headquarters of North Lanarkshire Council.
Motherwell is the headquarters for both North Lanarkshire Council, which is one of Scotland's most populous local authority areas, and of Police Scotland "Q" division. These organisations cover an overall population of 327,000 people (59,000 in Motherwell and Wishaw ) throughout the 183 square miles (470 km 2 ) of North Lanarkshire.
The council is based in Motherwell. The area was formed in 1996, covering the districts of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Motherwell, and Monklands, plus the Chryston and Auchinloch areas from Strathkelvin district, all of which had been in the Strathclyde region between 1975 and 1996. As a new single-tier authority, North Lanarkshire became ...
It remained the Motherwell District Council headquarters [14] until the abolition of the Strathclyde Region led to the formation of North Lanarkshire Council, based at the civic centre, in April 1996. [15] A comprehensive programme of refurbishment works to the concert hall and theatre, costing £6 million, was completed in November 2011. [16]
Elections to the Motherwell District Council took place in May 1992, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The result of the election Aggregate results
1974 Motherwell District Council election result Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/− Labour: 27 - - 90.0 56.7
The council is based at Motherwell Civic Centre on Windmillhill Street in Motherwell. The building was built between 1965 and 1970 for the former Motherwell and Wishaw Town Council, and was subsequently used as the headquarters of Motherwell District Council between 1975 and 1996.
Motherwell North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors and covers part of Motherwell (the Cleekhimin, Coursington and Globe neighbourhoods) plus the nearby, adjoining villages of Carfin, Newarthill and most of New Stevenston (other than streets north of the Shotts Line railway tracks), with a combined population of ...