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A new principal area and county of Denbighshire was created with effect from 1 April 1996, covering most of Glyndŵr, two communities from Colwyn, and all of Rhuddlan (the latter having been created in 1974 from areas in Flintshire rather than Denbighshire). The new Denbighshire County Council created in 1996 therefore covers a different area ...
Denbighshire (/ ˈ d ɛ n b i ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər / DEN-bee-shər, -sheer; [3] Welsh: Sir Ddinbych [ˌsiːr ˈðɪnbɨχ]) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west.
He was first elected to Denbighshire County Council as an Independent councillor for the ward of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd/Gwyddelwern in 2004. [1] He became leader of the council in November 2007 after the previous leader, Rhiannon Hughes, had resigned in October following damning reports into the county's education services. [ 1 ]
The Efenechtyd electoral ward elects a county councillor to site on Denbighshire County Council. [2] This ward stretches to the south-west of Efenechtyd with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,686, [ 3 ] the community population being 655.
Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber and the offices for the county officers. [6] Following local government reorganisation in 1974, the building became the offices of Glyndŵr District Council [7] and, following the creation of unitary authorities in 1996, it became the offices of the new Denbighshire County Council. [8]
An administrative county of Denbighshire was created in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888. The county was governed by an elected county council, who took over the functions of the Quarter Sessions courts. The county council was based at County Hall in Ruthin, a building which was designed by Walter Douglas Wiles and completed in March 1909. [4]
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She was elected as county councillor for Prestatyn North in 2022 and has been deputy leader of Denbighshire County Council, as well as lead member for Education, Children and Families. [ 2 ] She was selected in September 2023 as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the new constituency of Clwyd North. [ 2 ]