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Wakefield Metropolitan District Council

Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Third of council elected three years out of four
Coat of arms of Wakefield City Council.png
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Council logo
Type
Type
Houses Unicameral
History
New session started
16 May 2013 (Municipal year 2013/2014)
Leadership
Leader
Peter Box, Labour
Mayor
Harry Ellis
Since 13 November 2013
Seats 63
Elections
Multiple member first-past-the-post voting
Last election
2014 (one third of councillors)
2015 (one third of councillors)
2016 (one third of councillors)
Next election
2018 (one third of councillors)
2019 (one third of councillors)
2020 (one third of councillors)
Motto
Persevere and prosper
Meeting place
County Hall (1898), Wood Street, Wakefield.jpg
County Hall, Wakefield
Website
www.wakefield.gov.uk
Constitution
www.wakefield.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/71433D32-18E8-4FDC-8AD8-0B82A05CC3EC/0/Constitution201314.pdf

Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is the local authority of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council and provides a full 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. Wakefield is divided into 21 wards, electing 63 councillors. A third of the council is elected for three of every four years. The council was created by the Local Government Act 1972 and replaced the Wakefield City Council of the County Borough of Wakefield and several other authorities. Since 1974 Wakefield has held borough and city status and from this time would use the full title of the authority on all publications, signage, council vehicle fleet and documents, however from around 2005, like many other local authorities doing so at the time, the authority dropped the full title for the shorter Wakefield Council (although for an interim period when the new logo was unveiled, it would have the full authority title below however this has now been replaced with the strapline - 'working for you').

As of February 2013 the council is controlled by the Labour Party. The council leader is Peter Box and Joanne Roney is the chief executive. From April 2014 it is planned to be a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

The council was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 as the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. It replaced the existing Wakefield City Council that was the local authority of the County Borough of Wakefield. It also replaced Castleford Borough Council, Ossett Borough Council, Pontefract Borough Council, Featherstone Urban District Council, Hemsworth Urban District Council, Horbury Urban District Council, Knottingley Urban District Council, Normanton Urban District Council, Stanley Urban District Council, Wakefield Rural District Council, Hemsworth Rural District Council and Osgoldcross Rural District Council.


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