Durham (district)

Durham (district)
City of Durham
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Durham district shown within the two-tier county council area
Geography
Status non-metropolitan district, borough, city
HQ Durham
ONS code 20UE
History
Origin City of Durham and Framwelgate
Durham Rural District
Brandon and Byshottles Urban District
Created 1974
Abolished 2009
Succeeded by County Durham
Demography
1981 population 82,174
1991 population 87,287
2001 population 87,725
Politics
Governance Durham City Council

The City of Durham was, from 1974 to 2009, a non-metropolitan district of County Durham in North East England, with the status of borough and city.

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Formation

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the existing City of Durham and Framwelgate with Brandon and Byshottles Urban District and Durham Rural District.[1] The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England.

Durham City Council

The Council was made up of 50 councillors elected in all-out elections every four years (last elections 2007). The last political composition was Liberal Democrat 27, Labour 15, Independent 8. The 2003 elections saw the Liberal Democrats gain overall political control of the council from Labour, benefiting from boundary changes and substantial gains in Durham's eastern suburbs. Labour had held overall control of the City Council continually since the early 1980s.

Mayors

Mayors of the City of Durham are styled "The Right Worshipful, The Mayor of Durham". The Mayoralty is taken as a continuation of the mayoralty of the pre-1974 Durham and Framwelgate. The Mayor of Durham is entitled to an armed ceremonial bodyguard and claims to be equal fifth in civic precedence behind the Lord Mayors of London, York, Cardiff and Belfast [1]. Since the merger of the City Council into the Durham County Council unitary authority in 2009, mayoral appointments have been made by the Charter Trustees of the City of Durham (composing the Durham County Councillors with divisions within the former City of Durham district area).

List of Mayors since 1974

  • 1974/75 John J. Ramshaw, B.E.M.
  • 1975/76 Clifford Ellison, B.E.M.
  • 1976/77 James Mackintosh
  • 1977/78 Allan Thompson, J.P.
  • 1978/79 Joseph Edward Wright, B.E.M., J.P.
  • 1979/80 James Barr Lattimer, J.P.
  • 1980/81 Joseph Sylvester Anderson
  • 1981/82 William Taylor
  • 1982/83 Walter Stobbs
  • 1983/84 Derek Hanson
  • 1984/85 Ebenezer Shuker
  • 1985/86 Alan Crooks, J.P.
  • 1986/87 Robert Clewes
  • 1987/88 Ivy Elaine Humphries
  • 1988/89 Mildred Brown
  • 1989/90 James Alfred Fearon
  • 1990/91 William Henry Hartwell
  • 1991/92 David Bell
  • 1992/93 Michael Rochford
  • 1993/94 Maurice Crathorne, M.B.E.
  • 1994/95 William Dermot Cavanagh, M.A.
  • 1995/96 Stephen Terence McDonnell, D.N.
  • 1996/97 Joseph Sylvester Anderson
  • 1997/98 Neil Griffin, B.Ed, M.A.
  • 1998/99 Derek Young
  • 1999/00 Margaret Adair
  • 2000/01 George Wharton
  • 2001/02 John George Cowper
  • 2002/03 Eileen Rochford
  • 2003/04 Raymond Gibbon
  • 2004/05 Mary Ruth Hawgood
  • 2005/06 John George Taylor Lightley
  • 2006/07 William Jeffrey Lodge
  • 2007/08 Robert Wynn
  • 2008/09 Grenville Holland

Other civic appointments

Other civic appointments in the City of Durham at its merger with Durham County Council included:

  • Deputy Mayor - currently Councillor Robert Wynn.
  • Town Clerk - the Council's Chief Executive.
  • Recorder - the Council's Director of Legal Services.
  • Chaplain - the Dean of Durham Cathedral.
  • Judicial Recorder (since 2005) - currently His Honour Judge Richard Lowden
  • Billet Master - to be held by a senior Durham City police officer
  • Pant Master - the Council's Director of Environmental Services
  • Posts within the Mayoral Bodyguard
  • Honorary Aldermen

Civil parishes

The central area of the City of Durham (the area covered by the pre-1974 City of Durham and Framwelgate) is not parished. Those parts of the district formerly part of Durham Rural District or Brandon and Byshottles Urban District are all parished. The current Brandon and Byshottles Parish Council is co-terminous with the pre-1974 UDC and has inherited some of its responsibilities (e.g. allotments).

Civil Parishes in the former City of Durham district are:

Abolition

The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England although Durham will retain its city charter through the appointment of charter trustees.[2] All functions of principal authority local government are now administered by a unitary Durham County Council, including the appointment of the Mayor of Durham. There is a current proposal to create a Durham Town Council, covering the city centre and Newton Hall.[3] While supported by the Liberal Democrat controlled City Council, the Labour controlled County Council has opposed it.[4]

Durham gallery

References

  1. ^ Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. pp. 46,114. ISBN 0117508470. 
  2. ^ The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009 (SI 2009/837)
  3. ^ Proposals for Town Council Gain Support - The Advertiser, 19 December 2008
  4. ^ Parish debate is all about party politics - Durham Times 7 November 2008

External links

Coordinates: 54°46′53″N 1°31′08″W / 54.7815°N 1.5188°W / 54.7815; -1.5188


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