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Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council

Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council
Whole council elected every four years
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Type
Type
Houses Unicameral
Term limits
None
History
Founded 1 April 1965
Preceded by Barking Borough Council
Dagenham Borough Council
New session started
17 May 2013 (Municipal year 2013/2014)
Leadership
Darren Rodwell, Labour
Since 17 May 2013
Mayor
Anthony Ramsay
Since 17 May 2013
Leader of the largest opposition
Dan Young, UKIP
Structure
Seats 51 councillors in 17 wards
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Political groups

Executive (49)

Opposition (2)

Joint committees
East London Waste Authority
Thames Chase Joint Committee
Thames Gateway London Partnership
London Councils
Elections
Plurality-at-large
Last election
22 May 2014
Next election
2018
Meeting place
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Barking Town Hall
Website
www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk
Constitution
The Council Constitution

Executive (49)

Opposition (2)

Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. It provides a broad range of local government services including Council Tax billing, libraries, social services, processing planning applications, waste collection and disposal, and it is a local education authority. Barking and Dagenham is divided into 17 wards, each electing three councillors. At the May 2014 election, the Labour Party won all 51 seats. The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 as the Barking London Borough Council and replaced two local authorities: Barking Borough Council and Dagenham Borough Council. The council was renamed on 1 January 1980. The next election to the authority will be in 2018.

There have previously been a number of local authorities responsible for the Barking and Dagenham area. The current local authority was first elected in 1964, a year before formally coming into its powers and prior to the creation of the London Borough of Barking on 1 April 1965. Barking replaced Barking Borough Council and Dagenham Borough Council. Both were previously urban district councils, with Barking Town Urban District Council replaced by Barking Borough Council in 1931, and Dagenham Urban District Council replaced by Dagenham Borough Council in 1938. As Barking had urbanised first, it was governed by a local board of health from 1882, which became an urban district council in 1894. The parish of Dagenham was under rural administration until 1926, governed by Dagenham Parish Council and the Romford Rural District Council from 1894.


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