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2053: 1288: 45: 251:(Cmnd. 207) was published on 10 July 1957. The rating system was to be reformed with industry and freight to pay 50% instead of 25% rates. Nationalised industries were also to be brought into the rating system. It was anticipated that the measures would produce thirty million pounds per year. This would allow the government to reduce grants to local authorities. A general grant would be payable to county and county borough councils according to population and a number of other factors, the amount of which would be fixed for a number of years. Rate deficiency grants (renamed from equalisation grants) were to make up any shortfall in rate product to qualifying councils. 244:
welfare and health services, libraries, classified roads, bridges, licensing of cinemas and theatres if they so wished. County councils would also be permitted to delegate these powers to smaller county districts. Rural districts with less than 6,000 inhabitants would not be eligible to gain delegated powers, and those already exercising them would lose them.
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was not to exist in rural boroughs. The council of a rural borough was required to continue to appoint a town clerk, and was permitted to employ such officers and servants as needed to discharge the functions of the borough. All provisions of the borough's charter not inconsistent with its new status
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On 6 May 1958, a group of fourteen Conservative MPs representing coastal resorts revolted against the Government. They sought a change in the rating formula, so that resort towns would be reckoned as having fifty per cent more than their resident winter population. This was so that they could provide
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on 29 July 1957 when he said he was considering that in future rural districts could include "what might be called a rural borough or country borough with the mayoralty and corporate existence continuing so that the burgesses could go on enjoying the traditions and the corporate property which their
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Part IV dealt with general and supplementary provisions of the Act. One section in this part of the Act – Section 59 – allowed the council of a county or county borough to change the name of the borough or county by agreement with the Minister for Health. This section was quickly used by Southampton
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They also wanted any future reviews of county districts to be conducted by the commissions and not by county councils. They also stated their view that the population requirement for new county boroughs should be based on projected rather than present population. They also suggested that where rural
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The 1967 Act dissolved the two local government commissions, and ended the duty of county councils to review council areas. No report, proposals or notification made by the commissions or councils was to be carried into effect, if submitted after the beginning of 1963 by the Welsh commission, 10
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The Association of Municipal Authorities, which represented 432 boroughs in England and Wales gave its considered response to the paper in December. They pointed out that there were "unhappy relationships" between many county councils and boroughs in their area, with the inconsistent delegation of
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An Act to make further provision, as respects England and Wales, with respect to grants to local or police authorities, with respect to the rating of industrial and freight-transport hereditaments and of transport, electricity and gas authorities, with respect to the making of changes in the area,
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An Act to dissolve the Local Government Commission for England and the Local Government Commission for Wales, to provide (with retrospective effect) for the discontinuance of reviews under Part II of the Local Government Act 1958 and to repeal section 30(6) and certain related provisions of the
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was published on 2 May 1957 (Cmnd. 161). The document proposed giving additional powers to larger non-county boroughs and urban districts. Such towns, if they had a population of 60,000 would be entitled to assume responsibility for a number of county-level functions among which were education,
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name, status and functions of local authorities, and with respect to local government finance and elections; to amend the law in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland as to the making by trustees of loans to local and other authorities; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
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parishes were included in an extended borough, the parish council should continue to exist, and that it should be possible to create parish councils within existing urban areas. The Association also recommended that additional powers be devolved from the county to the boroughs in Middlesex.
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for those councils whose area had lower than average per capita rates income. These measures replaced a number of earlier separate grants for different services, which reflected the increasing number of services being provided by local authorities. These grants were later replaced with the
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The five special review areas consisted of major conurbations outside London: Tyneside, West Yorkshire, South East Lancashire, Merseyside and the West Midlands. A full review was only carried out in the West Midlands, when much of the review area was incorporated into five large
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were to remain in effect. Rural boroughs were prevented from applying for a new or amended charter, however. If the borough corporation so chose it could surrender its charter, and the borough would be converted into a
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was required to make a review of the local government in its area. However, they were not empowered to make any proposals in any place included in a special review area, or in the metropolitan area. As the entire
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was formed which had a different area than the 1958 Act SRA. While excluding Ellesmere Port and Neston, which remained in Cheshire, the 1974 boundaries included much more of Lancashire, including
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and education groups opposed the general or block grant on the basis that it would lead to cut-backs in educational expenditure. However, attempts to overturn the policy were defeated.
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The commission requested in 1963 that the Merseyside and Selnec special review areas be extended such that they touched in the middle, thus including
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The commission delivered its report in 1960, and a much modified version of its proposals (excluding outlying districts) was enacted as the
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voiced their opposition to the Bill, in particular the amalgamation or reduction in status of smaller boroughs in the confederation.
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powers by the counties to the boroughs. The Association wished for these powers to be conferred by legislation instead of delegated.
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for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of the Act. Finally, the population required for the formation of a new
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services to the much larger number of inhabitants in the Summer. The amendment was lost, with only the opposition member for
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was formed in 1974 for a similar area to the SRA, although it excluded Alderley Edge, Disley and Wilmslow, and added Wigan.
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Apart from the West Midlands review mentioned above, there were few large-scale changes brought about by the 1958 Act:
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created transport authorities for four of the areas and all of the review areas were eventually to form the nucleus of
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Part III allowed county councils to delegate certain powers in relation to health, welfare and education to
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These areas (except part of Whitley Bay) were all eventually included in the larger metropolitan county of
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County Council, which changed the administrative county's name (and therefore the council's name) to
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The review area was later extended by the South East Lancashire Review Area Order 1965 to include:
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The local government structure within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire – Prior to the
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February 1966 in the case of the English commission and 31 August 1966 by the county councils.
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in 1967 and 1968 (extensive changes in county districts and creation of five rural boroughs)
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The area was extended by the Merseyside Special Review Area Order 1965 to include:
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Part I of the act dealt with the finance of councils, in particular it introduced a
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Part II of the Act dealt with reviews of local government areas. It established a
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was excluded from making reviews. If the county council, in the opinion of the
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as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from
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who were charged with reviewing the organisation of local government in five
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Local government – areas and status of local authorities in England and Wales
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as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from
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Local government – functions of county councils and county district councils
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of a similar size could not be merged or amalgamated into a surrounding
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county borough, other changes including creation of one rural borough)
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Seven rural boroughs were created, five of them in Shropshire:
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The concept of rural boroughs had originally been announced by
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A weakness in the county reviews carried out under the earlier
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Reduce the number of small county districts by amalgamation.
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Establish new, larger authorities in the large conurbations.
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and deputy mayor were to be chosen annually. The office of
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In 1964, Solihull, with altered boundaries, became a
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The Act originated in three government white papers.
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Rural boroughs were no longer to be governed by the
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Index

Rural borough
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
6 & 7 Eliz. 2
Henry Brooke
Royal assent
Repealed by
Local Government Act 1972
Text of the Local Government Act 1958
legislation.gov.uk
6 & 7 Eliz. 2
Act
Parliament of the United Kingdom
England and Wales
London
county boroughs
Middlesex
Greater London
County of London
Labour Party
James MacColl
MP
Widnes
Cinque Ports
Lowestoft
General Rate Act 1967
Local Government Commission for England
Local Government Commission for Wales
Monmouthshire

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