Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council

Antrim and Newtonabbey District Council is a proposed Northern Irish local government district. Under the latest decision by the Review of Public Administration the district would be created by merging Antrim Borough Council and Newtownabbey Borough Council.

The new district would stretch from the lower River Bann and Lough Neagh to the shores of Belfast Lough. The region would have an electorate of 84,996.cite web | title=Provisional Recommendations of the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner for Northern Ireland| work=LGBC | url=http://www.lgbc-ni.org/index/provisional_recommendations.htm | accessdate=2008-09-26] The name of the new District was recommended on September 17. The first election for the new district was due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7367253.stm "Northern Ireland elections are postponed", BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008] ]

ee also

* Local government in Northern Ireland

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