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Buckinghamshire Council
Buckinghamshire Council | |
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 Coat of Arms of Buckinghamshire Council | |
 Council logo | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Founded | 1 April 2020[a] |
| Preceded by | Buckinghamshire County Council |
| Leadership | |
Rachael Shimmin since July 2019[2] | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 147 |
Political groups |
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| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
Last election | 6 May 2021 |
Next election | 1 May 2025 |
| Meeting place | |
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| The Gateway, Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 8FF | |
| Website | |
| www | |
Buckinghamshire Council is the local authority for Buckinghamshire (district), a non-metropolitan county in England. It is a unitary authority, performing both county and district-level functions. It was created on 1 April 2020, replacing the previous Buckinghamshire County Council and the councils of the four abolished districts of Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, and Wycombe. The territory of the Council is about four-fifths of Buckinghamshire (the ceremonial county, which also includes the City of Milton Keynes) and has about two-thirds of its population.
The county council had been established in 1889. The county was reformed in 1974, when it ceded Slough, Eton and nearby villages to Berkshire. In 1997, the Borough of Milton Keynes was detached to become a non-metropolitan county in its own right.[3]
The modern council has been under Conservative majority control since its creation, as had been the predecessor county council between the reforms of 1974 and its abolition in 2020.
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- ^ "Council meeting, 15 May 2024". Buckinghamshire Council. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ Richardson, Hannah (7 April 2021). "Buckinghamshire chief executive is fifth highest paid in the country". The Bucks Herald. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ "The Buckinghamshire (Borough of Milton Keynes) (Structural Change) Order 1995". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
(2) A new county shall be constituted comprising the area of Milton Keynes and shall be named the county of Milton Keynes.
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