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Extinction Rebellion Redeclaration, Bournemouth Square, 14 September 2019) Climate emergency declarations have been made by multiple jurisdictions in the United Kingdom, including city, county, and borough councils. Bills to declare a climate emergency have also been introduced in several other jurisdictions.
[3] [4] The term has also been applied to the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole boroughs, excluding the surrounding towns, for example, in their 2006 Joint Local Transport Plan. [5] The conurbation is the largest urban area in Britain with no part having city status .
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It was created in 2019 and covers much of the area of the South East Dorset conurbation , including the towns of Bournemouth , Poole and Christchurch .
First created in 1958 (Hampshire) [2] and 1980 (Dorset), [3] the belt takes up 36,000 hectares (360 km 2; 140 sq mi), 0.3% of the total land area of England (2017). [4] [5] Much of this is within the Dorset unitary authority area, with smaller portions within Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
A flood alert was made for coastal areas in East Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. [40] Butlin's Minehead was closed after flooding in Somerset. [41] A Wetherspoons pub in Taunton was flooded. [42] On 27 September 2023, Storm Agnes hit the UK with strong winds and heavy rain, which brought flooding in parts of the UK and Ireland.
The Borough can trace its history back to 27 August 1890 when the Municipal Borough of Bournemouth was created by royal charter. On 1 April 1900 it received county borough status which lasted until 1974. [1] In February 2018 the 'Future Dorset' plan was approved by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid.
Bournemouth and Poole had both been unitary authorities since 1997, whilst Christchurch was a lower tier district council, with Dorset County Council providing county-level services in that borough. The way the changes were implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county both called Bournemouth ...
The Makers of Christchurch: A Thousand Year Story. Natula Publications. ISBN 1-897887-22-1. "St Catherine's Hill and Town Common Management Plan 2012–2023" (PDF). Bournemouth Christchurch Poole Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2021