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stoke.gov.uk: Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles ...
As a unitary authority, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has the functions of a county council and district council combined. In its capacity as a district council it is a billing authority collecting Council Tax and business rates, it processes local planning applications, it is responsible for housing, waste collection and environmental health.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2023, 44 councillors have been elected from 34 wards .
Council tax in Stoke-on-Trent is set to go up by 4.99% under budget stabilisation plans proposed by the city council. The Labour-run council said it was a "difficult decision" but the increase ...
The 2023 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Stoke-on-Trent City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections . [ 1 ] New ward boundaries took effect for this election, although the number of councillors stayed the same at 44.
Stoke was located where the upper reaches of the Trent meets the Fowlea Brook. The later Roman road through Stoke remained the basis for local road transport long after the Roman occupation. The Anglian name given to this ancient place of meeting and worship was the 'stoc' (meeting place) on the Trent.
In 1910 the administrative county ceded Burslem, Fenton, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent and Tunstall to the new County Borough of Stoke on Trent, which also took in the previous county borough of Hanley. Territory was also transferred on a number of occasions from Staffordshire to the neighbouring county borough of Birmingham , which gained Harborne ...
It is run as a joint service with Stoke-on-Trent as the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service. The archives include parish registers, business and colliery records, enclosure awards and maps, manorial records, transport records, and electoral registers.