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Poole Civic Centre is an Art Deco municipal building in Poole, Dorset. Since 7 October 2019 the building has been a Grade II listed building . [ 1 ] Also sometimes known as Poole Town Hall , the civic centre was the headquarters of Poole Borough Council until 2019.
The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of Bournemouth Borough Council and then continued to operate as the local seat of government after the formation of the new unitary authority, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, on 1 April 2019. [11] [12] [13] The new council renamed the building the "BCP Council Civic Centre". [14]
Poole Borough Council was the unitary authority responsible for local government in the Borough of Poole, Dorset, England.It was created on 1 April 1997 following a review by the Local Government Commission for England (1992), becoming administratively independent from Dorset County Council, and ceased to exist on 1 April 2019. [1]
When BCP Council was created in 2019, it inherited various municipal buildings from its three predecessors, notably including their three headquarters buildings: Bournemouth Town Hall, the Civic Offices on Bridge Street in Christchurch, completed in 1980, [27] and Poole Civic Centre, on Parkstone Road in Poole, completed in 1932. [28] The ...
The building continued to serve as the headquarters of the borough council until the council moved to Poole Civic Centre at the junction between Parkstone Road and Sandbanks Road in May 1932. [7] During the Second World War, the guildhall was used as a canteen and meeting room for American troops preparing to take part in the invasion of France.
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Civic Centre, Parkstone Road: Poole Borough Council's headquarters 1932–2019. When elected county councils were established in 1889, despite being a county corporate, Poole was not considered large enough for the borough council to take on county council functions.
The Poole explosion of 1988 caused 3,500 people to be evacuated out of the town centre in the biggest peacetime evacuation the country had seen since the World War II. [2] [3] In 2020, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council revealed plans for regeneration of the area [4] with 25 million pounds for Poole High Street. [5]