Slough Borough Council | |
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Third of council elected three years out of four | |
Council logo
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Type | |
Type | |
Houses | Unicameral |
Term limits
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None |
Leadership | |
Leader
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Robert Anderson, Labour
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Balvinder Singh Bains, Labour
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Seats | 41 |
Elections | |
Plurality-at-large | |
Last election
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2010 (one third of councillors) 2011 (one third of councillors) 2012 (one third of councillors) |
Next election
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2014 (all councillors) 2015 (one third of councillors) 2016 (one third of councillors) |
Meeting place | |
Town Hall, Bath Road, Slough | |
Website | |
slough.gov.uk |
Slough Borough Council is the local authority for the Borough of Slough, in the South East England Region of the United Kingdom.
This article deals mainly with the unitary authority which was first elected, on a shadow basis, in 1997. It became the local authority for Slough on 1 April 1998. For some information about earlier Slough local authorities see Slough, Slough local elections and List of Mayors of Slough.
Slough Local Board of Health was established in 1863, becoming an urban sanitary authority in 1875. The local board was replaced by Slough Urban District Council formed in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. The council was granted a royal charter of incorporation as a municipal borough in 1938, becoming the Corporation of Slough or Slough Corporation. It was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, and replaced by Slough Borough Council.
Key to parties: C Conservative, IBR Independent Britwellian Residents, Ind Independent, Lab Labour, LD Liberal Democrats, Lib Liberal, UKIP United Kingdom Independence Party.
The cabinet system was introduced on 21 September 1999, to replace the traditional committee based methods of running local government.