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- Brighton became a municipal borough as a result of the 1972 Local Government Act, losing unitary control of town affairs to East Sussex County Council.
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Brighton ( / ˈbraɪtən / BRY-tən) is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located 47 miles (76 km) south of London. [1] Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
Jan 1, 2022 · Brighton & Hove's tenure as a borough would be very short lived, however. Not three years later a competition for city status opened once more in celebration of the millennium, and the new, beefier Brighton & Hove once more decided to lodge a bid.
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Brighton became a municipal borough as a result of the 1972 Local Government Act, losing unitary control of town affairs to East Sussex County Council. This reform was later followed by a reduction of wards to 16 in 1983.
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The district of Brighton and Hove was created in 1997 as a merger of the former Borough of Brighton and Borough of Hove, both of which had been lower-tier districts with East Sussex County Council providing county-level services prior to 1997. The new district was removed from the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex to also become its own non-me...
The council provides both district-level and county-level services. In its capacity as a district council it is a billing authority collecting council tax and business rates, and it is responsible for town planning, housing, waste collection and environmental health. In its capacity as a county council it is a local education authority, and is resp...
The council inherited Brighton Town Hall (completed 1832) and the adjoining 1980s Priory House and Bartholomew House from the old Brighton Borough Council, and Hove Town Hall(completed 1974) from the old Hove Borough Council. Council meetings are generally held at Hove Town Hall, which also houses the council's main offices. Brighton Town Hall and ...
Since the last boundary changes in 2023 the council has comprised 54 councillors representing 23 wards, with each ward electing two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years.
The council's museums service takes the name Royal Pavilion & Museums, and operates the Royal Pavilion, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, the Booth Museum of Natural History and Preston Manor.
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Brighton is a city on the south coast of England. It was called "Brighthelmstone". It is in the county of East Sussex. In 2000, it joined Hove to become the city of Brighton & Hove. Historically, Brighton forms the main part of the Brighton/ Worthing / Littlehampton conurbation, with 474,485 inhabitants (2011 census).
