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Motherwell is the headquarters for both North Lanarkshire Council, which is one of Scotland's most populous local authority areas, and of Police Scotland "Q" division. These organisations cover an overall population of 327,000 people (59,000 in Motherwell and Wishaw ) throughout the 183 square miles (470 km 2 ) of North Lanarkshire.
Motherwell (Scottish Gaelic: Tobar na Màthar, Scots: Mitherwall or Murwall) was a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996, lying to the south-east of the regional capital Glasgow.
The council is based in Motherwell. The area was formed in 1996, covering the districts of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Motherwell, and Monklands, plus the Chryston and Auchinloch areas from Strathkelvin district, all of which had been in the Strathclyde region between 1975 and 1996. As a new single-tier authority, North Lanarkshire became ...
1974 Motherwell District Council election result Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/− Labour: 27 - - 90.0 56.7
Motherwell North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors and covers part of Motherwell (the Cleekhimin, Coursington and Globe neighbourhoods) plus the nearby, adjoining villages of Carfin, Newarthill and most of New Stevenston (other than streets north of the Shotts Line railway tracks), with a combined population of ...
Motherwell West is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects three councillors and covers parts of Motherwell lying west of the Argyle Line and Cumbernauld line railways, including the Forgewood, Greenacres, Braedale and North Motherwell neighbourhoods, with a population of 14,256 in 2019; [3] created in 2007, its boundaries remained ...
Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors and covers much of the town of Motherwell (roughly all the territory east of the Argyle Line railway up to the station including the town centre, Airbles, Muirhouse and the developing suburb of Ravenscraig), as well as Craigneuk and ...
It remained the Motherwell District Council headquarters [14] until the abolition of the Strathclyde Region led to the formation of North Lanarkshire Council, based at the civic centre, in April 1996. [15] A comprehensive programme of refurbishment works to the concert hall and theatre, costing £6 million, was completed in November 2011. [16]