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Buckinghamshire Council
Buckinghamshire Council is the local authority for the Buckinghamshire district in England. It is a unitary authority, performing both county and district-level functions. It was created on 1 April 2020, replacing the previous Buckinghamshire County Council and the councils of the four abolished districts of Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, and Wycombe. The district, which is also legally a non-metropolitan county, covers about four-fifths of the area and has about two-thirds of the population of the wider ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, which also includes the City of Milton Keynes.
The county council had been established in 1889. The county was reformed in 1974, when it ceded Slough, Eton and nearby villages to Berkshire. In 1997, the Borough of Milton Keynes was detached to become a non-metropolitan county in its own right.
The council has had a Conservative majority since a change of allegiance in January 2026, having previously been under no overall control since the 2025 election. Prior to the 2025 election, the council had been under majority Conservative control from its creation, as had been the predecessor county council between the reforms of 1974 and its abolition in 2020.
Elected county councils were created in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, taking over administrative functions which had previously been performed by unelected magistrates at the quarter sessions.
The first elections were held in January 1889 and the county council formally came into being on 1 April 1889, on which day it held its first meeting at County Hall in Aylesbury, the courthouse (completed 1740) which had served as the meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. The first chairman was Henry William Cripps, a QC from Marlow, who was also chairman of the quarter sessions.
There were occasional changes to the county's boundaries, notably following the Local Government Act 1894, which said that parishes and districts could no longer straddle county boundaries. Linslade was transferred to Bedfordshire in 1965.
Buckinghamshire was redesignated as a non-metropolitan county in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which also transferred Slough, Eton, and nearby villages to Berkshire. Until 1974 the lower tier of local government comprised numerous municipal boroughs, urban districts and rural districts. They were also reorganised as part of the 1974 reforms into five non-metropolitan districts: Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, Milton Keynes, South Bucks (called 'Beaconsfield' until 1980), and Wycombe.
In 1997 the borough of Milton Keynes was removed from the non-metropolitan county to become its own unitary authority. The City of Milton Keynes remains part of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire for the purposes of lieutenancy.
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Buckinghamshire Council
Buckinghamshire Council is the local authority for the Buckinghamshire district in England. It is a unitary authority, performing both county and district-level functions. It was created on 1 April 2020, replacing the previous Buckinghamshire County Council and the councils of the four abolished districts of Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, and Wycombe. The district, which is also legally a non-metropolitan county, covers about four-fifths of the area and has about two-thirds of the population of the wider ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, which also includes the City of Milton Keynes.
The county council had been established in 1889. The county was reformed in 1974, when it ceded Slough, Eton and nearby villages to Berkshire. In 1997, the Borough of Milton Keynes was detached to become a non-metropolitan county in its own right.
The council has had a Conservative majority since a change of allegiance in January 2026, having previously been under no overall control since the 2025 election. Prior to the 2025 election, the council had been under majority Conservative control from its creation, as had been the predecessor county council between the reforms of 1974 and its abolition in 2020.
Elected county councils were created in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888, taking over administrative functions which had previously been performed by unelected magistrates at the quarter sessions.
The first elections were held in January 1889 and the county council formally came into being on 1 April 1889, on which day it held its first meeting at County Hall in Aylesbury, the courthouse (completed 1740) which had served as the meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. The first chairman was Henry William Cripps, a QC from Marlow, who was also chairman of the quarter sessions.
There were occasional changes to the county's boundaries, notably following the Local Government Act 1894, which said that parishes and districts could no longer straddle county boundaries. Linslade was transferred to Bedfordshire in 1965.
Buckinghamshire was redesignated as a non-metropolitan county in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which also transferred Slough, Eton, and nearby villages to Berkshire. Until 1974 the lower tier of local government comprised numerous municipal boroughs, urban districts and rural districts. They were also reorganised as part of the 1974 reforms into five non-metropolitan districts: Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, Milton Keynes, South Bucks (called 'Beaconsfield' until 1980), and Wycombe.
In 1997 the borough of Milton Keynes was removed from the non-metropolitan county to become its own unitary authority. The City of Milton Keynes remains part of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire for the purposes of lieutenancy.
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