Nottingham City Council

Nottingham was an ancient borough. The earliest known borough charter was issued by Henry II sometime between 1155 and 1165; that charter did not purport to create the borough, but instead confirmed to it the rights that it had already held in the time of Henry I (reigned 1100–1135). The borough was governed by a corporation, also known as the town council. A later charter of 1284 granted the borough the right to appoint a mayor.[6]

In 1836 Nottingham became a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, Nottingham was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services and so it was made a county borough, independent from Nottinghamshire County Council.[7]

Nottingham was awarded city status on 7 August 1897, allowing the corporation to call itself Nottingham City Council.[8] In 1928 the city council was given the right to appoint a lord mayor.[9]

In 1974 Nottingham became a non-metropolitan district under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming a lower tier authority with Nottinghamshire County Council providing county level services in the city for the first time. The city kept the same outer boundaries, but did gain an exclave from Nottinghamshire containing the Shire Hall.[10][11] Nottingham kept its borough and city statuses and its lord mayoralty.[12][13]

Nottingham became a unitary authority on 1 April 1998, regaining its independence from Nottinghamshire County Council.[14]

As a unitary authority, Nottingham City Council has the functions of a county council and district council combined. There are no civil parishes in Nottingham, which has been an unparished area since the reforms of 1974.[15]

Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG - Council's main offices since 2009.

Full Council meetings are held at Nottingham Council House in the Old Market Square in the city centre, which was completed in 1929 and is now a Grade II* listed building.[22]

In 2009 the council moved its main offices to Loxley House, a modern office building on Station Street, opposite Nottingham railway station.[23]

Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 55 councillors representing 20 wards, with each ward electing two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years.[24]

Wards

Map of the electoral wards of Nottingham.

The wards are:[24]

Map No.	Ward	Councillors
1	Aspley	3
2	Basford	3
3	Berridge	3
4	Bestwood	3
5	Bilborough	3
6	Bulwell Forest	3
7	Bulwell	3
8	Castle	2
9	Clifton East	3
10	Clifton West	2
11	Dales	3
12	Hyson Green & Arboretum	3
13	Leen Valley	2
14	Lenton & Wollaton East	3
15	Mapperley	3
16	Meadows	2
17	Radford	2
18	Sherwood	3
19	St. Ann's	3
20	Wollaton West	3

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