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The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985.
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These were reorganised further when Greater London was formed out of Middlesex and the County of London in 1965.
Fulcher was born in Tranmere Road, Whitton, Middlesex ( now Greater London ), in July 1942.
The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.
Greater London is an administrative area, ceremonial county and the London region of England.
The ceremonial county created at the same time, and used for the purposes of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, does not include the City of London.
The Greater London Authority consisting of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, headquartered in City Hall, has been responsible for strategic local government since 2000.
Greater London occupies the same area as the London European Parliament constituency.
The term Greater London was in use before 1965 to refer to a variously defined area, larger than the County of London and often similar to the Metropolitan Police District.
London is divided into the small City of London and the much wider Greater London.
Outside the limited boundaries of the old city, a variety of arrangements have governed the wider area since 1855, culminating with the creation of the Greater London administrative area in 1965.
The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.
Greater and Council
`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.
London County Council proposed a vast new area for Greater London, with a proposed boundary somewhere between the Metropolitan Police District and the home counties.
Arms of the former Greater London Council
Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.
Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.
Due to this outward expansion, in 1965 the old County of London ( which by now only covered part of the London conurbation ) and the London County Council were abolished, and the much larger area of Greater London was established with a new Greater London Council ( GLC ) to administer it, along with 32 new London boroughs.
The area of responsibility was reduced to that of the Greater London administrative area in 1970 when the Greater London Council, and then London Regional Transport took over responsibility.
The London Passenger Transport Act 1933 removed responsibility for of tram route from the London County Council, three county boroughs and a number of other local authorities in the Greater London area.
The Greater London Council was the transport authority from 1 January 1970 to 28 June 1984 and the executive agency was called the London Transport Executive.
The legislation creating the Greater London Council ( GLC ) was already passed in 1963 when the London Transport Board was created.
Following the Greater London Council election in 1981, the incoming Labour administration simplified fares in Greater London by introducing four new bus fare zones and two central London Underground zones, named City and West End, where flat fares applied for the first time.
Maluleka later became the chairman of the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan City Council ( later City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality ), then was elected Speaker of the Tshwane Metro Council and in 2004 was chosen to be a member of the South African Parliament for the Soshanguve constituency.
During this period, the College was governed by the Victoria College Council, representative of the parent University of British Columbia, the Greater Victoria School Board, and the provincial Department of Education.
* January 20 – The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding ( the barrier opens in 1981 ).
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When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.
Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.
The professed goal of the group was the creation of a Greater Serbia, by use of violence, if necessary.
But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.
On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Coronation Street was working with The Mill and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive ( responsible for the operation of Manchester Metrolink ) to film a spectacular and realistic tram crash.
The County Dublin population was 1, 273, 069 and that of the Greater Dublin Area 1, 804, 156.
" A similar view of Dobrawa's burial place was expressed earlier, in 1843, by Edward Raczyński in his study Wspomnienia Wielkopolski to jest województw poznańskiego, kaliskiego i gnieźnieńskiego ( Memories of the Greater Poland districts of Poznań, Kalisz and Gniezno ).
Greater Catan was a scenario included in the older editions of Seafarers but is not included in newer editions.
In 1983 DIF I started to integrate the territory of the new city of Maracanaú, which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza ( the city's Metropolitan area ).
The Greater London Arterial Road Programme was devised between 1913 and 1916.
One of the larger early forms was the Greater London Planning Region, devised in 1927, which occupied and included 9 million people.
Reform of the local government arrangements in the County of London and its environs was again considered by the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London.
Greater London was used to form the London region of England in 1994.
Greater and abolished
When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).
In 1986, the metropolitan county councils and Greater London were abolished.
They were amended when, in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, East Barnet Urban District and Barnet Urban District were abolished and their area was transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Barnet.
Greater administrative power was given to both the leaders of the prefectures and of the provinces, while power was taken away from the vicariates of the dioceses, of which a number were abolished.
In 1986, the Greater London Council was abolished by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.
** Inner London, a term of variable official definition describing the group of local authorities ' areas in the centre of Greater London, often matching the boundary of the previous County of London or the ( abolished ) Inner London Education Authority
The City of Greater Manila was abolished by the Japanese with the formation of the Philippine Executive Commission to govern the occupied regions of the country.
The Kalisz province was abolished in 1998 and since then Kalisz has been a county seat separate powiat within the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
In 1965, London County Council was abolished and replaced by Greater London Council, with an expanded administrative area that took in the metropolitan parts of the Home Counties.
In 1965 the metropolitan borough was abolished and its former area became the southern part of the London Borough of Southwark in Greater London.
In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the Erith Municipal Borough was abolished and its area transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Bexley.
It should be noted, however, that though for administrative purposes the area now falls within the area administered by the Greater London Authority, together with the London Assembly and the Mayor of London, the geographic county of Middlesex was never abolished and many Feltham residents continue to identify their home county as " Middlesex ".
Kingston, administratively part of Greater London, contains County Hall, the seat of Surrey County Council, and except for the Kingston Vale area in the north-east which has a London SW15 postcode, was part of Surrey for postal purposes until postal counties were abolished in 1996.
In 1965, the Municipal Borough of Leyton was abolished and was combined with that of Walthamstow and Chingford to form the London Borough of Waltham Forest, within the new county of Greater London.
In 1965 the urban district was abolished and the area was transferred from Kent to Greater London, to form part of the London Borough of Bromley.
The urban district was abolished in 1965 and merged with others to became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in Greater London.
Historically, Sipson was in the county of Middlesex, which was abolished as a local government entity when Greater London was created in 1965.
In 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area merged with that of the Municipal Borough of Chingford and the Municipal Borough of Leyton to form the London Borough of Waltham Forest in Greater London.
In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished and its former area was transferred to Greater London from Middlesex under the London Government Act 1963 to form the London Borough of Harrow.
He started his victory speech with " As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago ", making it clear he saw the London Assembly as a recreation of a similar London wide authority to that of the Greater London Council, which he had led before it was abolished in the 1980s.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, the town's autonomous County borough status was abolished, and Oldham has, since 1 April 1974, formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, within the Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.
In 1974 Denton's Urban District status was abolished and its assets and area were transferred to form part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.
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