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The Birmingham City Council convened an emergency meeting to propose safety measures for the city, although proposals for a curfew were rejected. Within 24 hours of the bombing, a minimum of five businesses and properties had been firebombed and numerous cars—most of which were driven by whites—had been stoned by rioting youths.
From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the West Midlands County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to the county's seven borough councils, including Birmingham City Council, with some services provided through joint committees.
Meeting place. 16 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3SD. Website. www .wmca .org .uk. The West Midlands Combined Authority ( WMCA) is the combined authority for the West Midlands metropolitan county in the United Kingdom. It was established by statutory instrument under the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. [3]
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Birmingham City Council’s plans for an annual 9.99% increase in council tax and £300 million of cuts have been described as a “double whammy of higher taxes and fewer services”.
Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates. Each property is assigned one of eight bands in ...
Deborah Ann Cadman OBE (born 11 February 1963 in Birmingham, UK [1] [2]) was the Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council from June 2021-April 2024 [3] and was the first permanent Chief Executive of the newly created West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). Cadman's appointment was announced in June 2017 and she took on the role in September ...
The county council established its main administrative offices at County Hall, 1 Lancaster Circus, in central Birmingham. Since the county council's abolition in 1986, County Hall has been occupied, but not as its headquarters, by Birmingham City Council. Political control. The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating ...