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Houses
  
Unicameral

Founded
  
1 April 1974

Term limits
  
None

Thurrock Council

Type
  
Unitary authority council of Thurrock

Preceded by
  
Thurrock Urban District Council

New session started
  
25 May 2016 (Municipal year 2016/2017)

Thurrock Council is the local council for the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. Since 1997, Thurrock is a unitary authority, combining the functions of a non-metropolitan county with that of a non-metropolitan district. The other such authority in Essex is Southend-on-Sea. It is a member of the East of England Local Government Association.

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Mayor

The Mayor is elected at the annual meeting which is held following council elections or in May in years when there are no council elections. The most recent mayors have been:

  • 2004/05 Ian Harrison
  • 2005/06 Colin Churchman
  • 2006/07 Joy Redsell
  • 2007/08 Diane Revell
  • 2008/09 John Everett
  • 2009/10 Maureen Pearce
  • 2010/11: Anne Cheale
  • 2011/12: Charles Curtis
  • 2012/13: Yash Gupta
  • 2013/14: Tony Fish
  • 2014/15: Steve Liddiard
  • 2015/16: Sue Gray
  • 2016/17: Cathy Kent

    • Councillors

    Thurrock is divided into 20 wards and elects 49 councillors. The council comprises (as of 21 September 2016):

    Prior to the Thurrock Council election, 2015 the council was run by a Labour minority administration, after the Labour Party lost its small majority at the 2014 election. Thurrock had previously been a hung council for several years after the Conservatives lost control in 2007.


    The Borough's 20 electoral wards are:

  • Aveley and Uplands, Belhus, Chadwell St Mary, Chafford and North Stifford, Corringham and Fobbing, East Tilbury, Grays Riverside, Grays Thurrock, Little Thurrock Blackshots, Little Thurrock Rectory, Ockendon, Orsett, South Chafford, Stifford Clays, Stanford East and Corringham Town, Stanford-le-Hope West, The Homesteads, Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park, Tilbury St Chads, West Thurrock and South Stifford.

    • History

    Thurrock District Council was first elected in 1973, a year before formally coming into its powers and prior to the creation of the Thurrock District on 1 April 1974. It replaced Thurrock Urban District Council, which governed a slightly larger area including part of Basildon New Town and had been formed in 1936 as an amalgamation of Grays Thurrock Urban District Council, Purfleet Urban District Council, Tilbury Urban District Council, and Orsett Rural District Council including associated parish councils; a result of the Local Government Act 1929. The council received borough status, permitting the council to be known as Thurrock Borough Council. It was originally constituted as non-metropolitan district council in a two-tier arrangement, sharing service provision with Essex County Council. As a result of the 1992 Local Government Commission for England on 1 April 1998 Thurrock absorbed the powers of Essex County Council for its area, becoming a unitary authority. The planning function for large developments was exercised by the Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation in the whole of the borough from 2003 to 2012. The development corporation was absorbed by the council on 1 April 2012.

    Summary election results

    Since 1997 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

    References

    Thurrock Council Wikipedia
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