Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
status Unitary Authority
region South West England
Ceremony county Dorset
surface 161 km²
Residents 395.784
was standing June 30, 2018
GSS code E06000058
Website bcpcouncil.gov.uk
founding April 1, 2019

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole , or BCP for short, is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Dorset in England .

history

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole was formed on April 1, 2019 on the basis of an ordinance issued in May 2018 and emerged from the merger of the Unitary Authorities Bournemouth and Poole with the Christchurch district in the administrative county of Dorset . Their establishment was part of a restructuring of Dorset, in which at the same time the remaining five districts were combined into another unitary authority and thus the existing administrative county was dissolved.

Politics and administration

The unitary authority's parliament will be a 76-member council that will be elected for the first time on May 2, 2019. Due to its size, it is meeting at Bournemouth University until further notice . Graham Farrant is in charge of administration.

The communities (made in the field of BCP Parishes ) Burton and Winkton , Christchurch , Highcliffe and Walkford , Holdenhurst and Hurn , but a total of only affect a small part of the area. The much larger one, comprising the cities of Bournemouth and Poole, is an unparished area outside of this system. This means that they do not have a city council, the tasks assigned to the parishes are carried out here by the Unitary Authority. Instead, a charter trust was set up in each case , through which the MPs elected to the BCP council in the electoral districts there keep in trust the historic title of Borough and the rights conferred with it and, among other things, have the opportunity to elect a mayor for ceremonial functions .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mid 2018 Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
  2. ↑ The Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (Structural Changes) Order 2018 on the UK Government's Legislative Server, accessed April 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ Josh Wright: Local elections 2019: All the candidates standing for the new Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council. Bournemouth Echo, April 5, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019
  4. ↑ Josh Wright: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council will hold meetings at university. Bournemouth Echo, January 4, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019
  5. ^ Josh Wright: What is the new BCP Council and when does it start? Bournemouth Echo, April 1, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019
  6. ^ Bournemouth Charter Trustees - Standing Orders, Handbook and Mayor Making Arrangements. Template for the constituent meeting on March 30, 2019, accessed on April 30, 2019, PDF file, 892 kB. (English)
  7. ^ Poole Charter Trustees - Standing Orders, Handbook and Mayor Making Arrangements. Template for the constituent meeting on March 30, 2019, accessed on April 30, 2019, PDF file, 818 kB. (English)