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Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) is a social housing provider established in 2012 to receive the transfer of housing stock from Rochdale Borough Council in Greater Manchester, England. It has a subsidiary, RBH (Design and Build) Limited. It owns and manages about 12,700 properties. In March 2020, it employed 545 full time equivalent staff.
Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, a current borough of Greater Manchester, covering the town of Rochdale and the surrounding area Rochdale Borough Council, local government for the current borough; County Borough of Rochdale (1856–1974), former local government district of Lancashire, covering just the town of Rochdale
The council styles itself Rochdale Borough Council rather than its full formal name of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council. [8] From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater ...
This is a list of notable council estates. Public housing in the United Kingdom has typically consisted of council houses , often built in the form of large estates by local government councils. Becontree in The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is generally considered to be the largest council estate (in terms of population).
A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. A council estate is a building complex containing a number of council houses and other amenities like schools and shops. Construction took place mainly from 1919 to 1980s, as a result of the Housing Act 1919. Though more council ...
The LHA system is a form of housing benefit administered, along with council tax benefit, by the local authority in whose area the property being rented lies. For those areas where there is two-tier local government Housing Benefit is administered by the district or borough council layer of local government.
Accordingly, the County Borough of Rochdale came into existence in 1889, with the powers of both a borough and a county council. Rochdale remained within Lancashire for certain purposes such as lieutenancy and administration of justice. In 1900 the county borough absorbed the bulk of the neighbouring Castleton Urban District by mutual agreement.
Number One Riverside is a multi-use public building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.It incorporates Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council civic offices and customer service centre, Rochdale Central Library as well as conference facilities for community use and office space for third parties. [3]