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Gwent County Council was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It took over the geographical area and main roles of the previous councils, Monmouthshire County Council (1889–1974) and Newport County Borough Council (1891–1974), subject to some boundary changes along the western border.
The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended the Local Government Act 1972 to create the current local government structure in Wales of 22 unitary authority areas, referred to as principal areas in the Act, [1] and abolished the previous two-tier structure of counties and districts.
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The enlarged borough had an area of 46,976 acres (19,011 ha), and was governed by both Newport Borough Council and Gwent County Council. In 1996, another wave of local-government reorganisation reverted the council to its previous status of a self-governing county borough, taking over the functions of the abolished Gwent County Council in the ...
Mar 5, 2024 · Caerphilly Borough Council. £1,446.37 (6.9 per cent) Monmouthshire County Council. £1,686.70 (7.8 per cent) Newport City Council. £1,380.13 (8.5 per cent) Torfaen Borough Council. £1,550.57 (4.95 per cent) *Blaenau Gwent Council hadn’t published a band D figure and the amount has been calculated based on its agreed 4.95 per cent increase ...
Blaenau Gwent was first created in 1974 as a local government district of Gwent. It merged together the areas of Brynmawr urban district, the parish of Llanelly in Brecknockshire, and the Monmouthshire urban districts of Abertillery, Ebbw Vale, Nantyglo, Blaina, and Tredegar. Then in 1996 Blaenau Gwent became a county borough, governed by ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Gwent PCC Jeff Cuthbert will not be seeking re-election. Next month, voters across Gwent will head to the polls to choose the area’s next police and crime commissioner. Labour’s Jeff Cuthbert, who was first elected to the role in 2016 and re-elected in 2021, will not be seeking re-election. He had stood back from the role for a temporary ...
Audit of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council’s 2019-20 Accounts Each year we audit the Council’s financial statements. For 2019-20: • The Auditor General gave an unqualified true and fair opinion on the Council’s financial statements on 3 March 2021. • Whilst our audit opinion was unqualified, we have included an Emphasis of Matter
