Borough of Pendle | |
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Borough | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Region | North West England |
Ceremonial county | Lancashire |
Admin. HQ | Nelson |
Government | |
• Type | Pendle Borough Council |
• Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
• MPs: | Andrew Stephenson |
Area | |
• Total | 65.4 sq mi (169.4 km2) |
• Rank | 155th |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 95,789 |
• Rank | Ranked 249th |
• Density | 1,500/sq mi (570/km2) |
Ethnicity (2021) | |
• Ethnic groups | |
Religion (2021) | |
• Religion | List
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Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (British Summer Time) |
ONS code | 30UJ (ONS) E07000122 (GSS) |
NUTS 3 | UKD46 |
Pendle is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. The council is based in Nelson, the borough's largest town. The borough also includes the towns of Barnoldswick, Brierfield, Colne and Earby along with the surrounding villages and rural areas. Part of the borough lies within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The neighbouring districts are Burnley, Ribble Valley, North Yorkshire, Bradford and Calderdale.
The name Pendle comes from "Penhill", combining the Cumbric "pen" meaning hill and the Saxon "hill", also meaning hill. The name was used for Pendle Hill (literally "hill hill hill"), a prominent outlier of the Pennines. The name was then also used for the ancient Forest of Pendle around the hill, and for Pendle Water, a river which rises on the hill and flows into the River Calder. [2] The name also became associated with the Pendle witches, tried for witchcraft in 1612, as the accused were all from the area. [3]
The modern local government district of Pendle was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It covered the whole area of seven former districts and parts of another two, all of which were abolished at the same time: [4]
The Barnoldswick, Earby and Skipton parts were in the West Riding of Yorkshire prior to 1974. The term West Craven is sometimes used for this area transferred from Yorkshire to Lancashire in 1974. The new district was named Pendle after the hill, forest and river. [5] The district was awarded borough status on 15 September 1976, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. [6]
Pendle Borough Council | |
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Type | |
Type | |
History | |
Founded | 1 April 1974 |
Leadership | |
Rose Rouse since 2021 [7] | |
Structure | |
Seats | 33 councillors |
Political groups |
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Elections | |
First past the post | |
Last election | 4 May 2023 |
Next election | 2024 |
Meeting place | |
Town Hall, Market Street, Nelson, BB9 7LG | |
Website | |
www |
Pendle Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Lancashire County Council. [8] The whole borough is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government. [9]
Brian Cookson retired in March 2013 from his position as executive director for Regeneration, a post he had held for nine years, in parallel (after 2007) with that of President of British Cycling. [10] Subsequently, becoming the President of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world governing body for sports cycling.
In June 2017, a Conservative councilor, Rosemary Carroll, [11] was suspended after sending a racist post on social media comparing Asians to dogs. This controversy expanded after the local elections in 2018, when the councilor was readmitted into the Conservative Party, allowing the Conservative party to gain a majority on the council. The Pendle Labour party accused the Pendle Conservative Party of condoning racism after the reinstatement. The Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler, called upon the Conservative Party Chairman, Brandon Lewis, to issue a statement saying that the councillor in question would not be part of the Conservative group on the council. This followed a statement from Lewis congratulating the Pendle Conservatives on winning a majority on the council. [12] [13]
In April 2024, all of Labour’s 11 borough councillors in Pendle including the leader of Pendle Borough Council quit the party. [14]
Following the 2023 election the council has been under no overall control, being led by a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition. [15] On the 30 March 2024 all ten Labour councillors resigned from the party becoming Independents.
The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows: [16] [17]
Party in control | Years | |
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No overall control | 1974–1976 | |
Conservative | 1976–1979 | |
No overall control | 1979–1987 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1987–1990 | |
No overall control | 1990–1991 | |
Labour | 1991–1994 | |
No overall control | 1994–1995 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1995–1999 | |
No overall control | 1999–2004 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2004–2008 | |
No overall control | 2008–2018 | |
Conservative | 2018–2019 | |
No overall control | 2019–2021 | |
Conservative | 2021–2023 | |
No overall control | 2023–present |
The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Pendle. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 2015 have been: [18]
Councillor | Party | From | To | |
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Joe Cooney | Conservative | 2015 | ||
Mohammed Iqbal | Labour | 2015 | 17 May 2018 | |
Paul White | Conservative | 17 May 2018 | 5 May 2019 | |
Mohammed Iqbal | Labour | 16 May 2019 | 20 May 2021 | |
Nadeem Ahmed | Conservative | 20 May 2021 | 18 May 2023 | |
Asjad Mahmood | Labour | 18 May 2023 |
Following the 2023 election, the composition of the council was: [19]
Party | Councillors | |
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Conservative | 14 | |
Labour | 11 | |
Liberal Democrats | 7 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 33 |
The next election is due in 2024.
The council meets at Nelson Town Hall on Market Street in the centre of Nelson. It has its main administrative offices in a modern building at 1 Market Street, opposite the town hall. [20]
Since the last full review of boundaries took effect in 2021 the council has comprised 33 councillors representing 12 wards, with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, with roughly a third of the council being elected each time for a four-year term. Lancashire County Council elections are held in the fourth year of the cycle when there are no borough council elections. [21]
Following the 2023 election, the councillors were: [22]
Ward | Name | Party | |
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Barnoldswick | Tom Whipp | Liberal Democrats | |
Chris Church | Liberal Democrats | ||
Mick Strickland | Liberal Democrats | ||
Barrowford and Pendleside | Martyn Stone | Conservative | |
Nadeem Ahmed | Conservative | ||
David Gallear | Conservative | ||
Boulsworth and Foulridge | Sarah Cockburn-Price | Conservative | |
David Cockburn-Price | Conservative | ||
Kevin Salter | Conservative | ||
Bradley | Mohammad Aslam | Conservative | |
Mohammed Iqbal | Independent | ||
Mohammad Kaleem | Conservative | ||
Brierfield East and Clover Hill | Naeem Hussain Ashraf | Labour | |
Sajjad Ahmed | Labour | ||
Zafar Ali | Labour | ||
Brierfield West and Reedley | Mohammad Hanif | Labour | |
Yasser Iqbal | Labour | ||
Earby and Coates | Susan Land | Liberal Democrats | |
Rosemary Carroll | Conservative | ||
David Whipp | Liberal Democrats | ||
Fence and Higham | Brian Newman | Liberal Democrats | |
Marsden and Southfield | Yvonne Tennant | Labour | |
Mohammed Adnan | Labour | ||
Mohammed Ammer | Labour | ||
Vivary Bridge | Kieran McGladdery | Conservative | |
Tom Ormerod | Conservative | ||
David Albin | Conservative | ||
Waterside and Horsfield | Neil Butterworth | Conservative | |
Dorothy Lord | Liberal Democrats | ||
Ash Sutcliffe | Conservative | ||
Whitefield and Walverden | Faraz Ahmad | Labour | |
Ruby Anwar | Labour | ||
Asjad Mahmood | Labour |
The Pendle constituency is represented in Parliament by the Conservative Member of Parliament, Andrew Stephenson, since 2010. The constituency covers the same area as the borough.
The three main employers in the borough are Rolls-Royce plc, Silentnight and the Daisy Group.[ citation needed ]
The borough is entirely covered by civil parishes. The parish councils for Barnoldswick, Brierfield, Colne, Earby and Nelson take the style "town council". [23]
Contemporary civil parish | Map ref | Medieval jurisdiction | Medieval jurisdiction | Early modern jurisdiction |
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Barley-with-Wheatley Booth | 1 | Pendle Forest, manor of Ightenhill | Forest of Blackburnshire | Whalley, Lancashire: once a much larger parish than today. It encompassed a large part of eastern Lancashire. It also included areas outside Pendle. |
Barrowford | 3 | |||
Blacko | 4 | |||
Old Laund Booth | 15 | |||
Goldshaw Booth | 10 | |||
Reedley Hallows | 16 | |||
Roughlee Booth | 17 | |||
Higham-with-West Close Booth | 11 | |||
Trawden Forest | 19 | Trawden Forest, manor of Colne | ||
Nelson | 14 | manor of Ightenhill, not in Forest | Blackburnshire, not in Forest | |
Brierfield | 6 | |||
Colne | 7 | manor of Colne, not in Forest | ||
Foulridge | 9 | |||
Laneshaw Bridge | 13 | |||
Barnoldswick | 2 | Now referred to as "West Craven". This is a part of Lancashire, which was once in the neighbouring West Riding of Yorkshire. (Within the Wapentake of Staincliffe, Deanery of Craven.) | ||
Bracewell and Brogden | 5 | |||
Salterforth | 8 | |||
Kelbrook and Sough | 12 | |||
Earby | 18 | |||
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Pendle.
Barnoldswick is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle, in the administrative county of Lancashire, England. It is within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. Barnoldswick and the surrounding areas of West Craven have been administered since 1974 as part of the modern administrative county of Lancashire. This was when West Riding County Council and Barnoldswick Urban District Council were abolished and the town was transferred to the Borough of Pendle.
Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, it had a population of 29,135 in the 2011 Census. Nelson is 3 miles (5 km) north of Burnley and 2 miles (3 km) south-west of Colne. Nelson developed as a mill town during the Industrial Revolution.
Colne is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. Located 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Nelson, 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Burnley and 25 mi (40 km) east of Preston.
Pendle is a constituency in Lancashire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Andrew Stephenson, a Conservative. The constituency was newly created for the 1983 general election, being largely formed from the former Nelson and Colne constituency.
Earby is a town and civil parish within the Borough of Pendle, Lancashire, England. Although within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, Earby has been administered by Lancashire County Council since 1974 and regularly celebrates its Yorkshire roots. It is 5 miles (8 km) north of Colne, 7 miles (11.3 km) south-west of Skipton, and 11 miles (17.7 km) north-east of Burnley. The parish had a population of 4,538 recorded in the 2011 census,
Barrowford is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England, north of Nelson, near the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Nelson and Colne was a constituency in Lancashire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
The Nelson Leader is a weekly newspaper published every Friday for readers in the town of Nelson in Pendle, east Lancashire. England. It is edited from the 'Leader-Times' series of newspapers' offices in Nelson.
Noyna Hill is a hill in the Pennine range in Pendle, Lancashire, England.
Andrew George Stephenson is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care since November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle in Lancashire since 2010.
The 1999 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control.
The 2003 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
The 2004 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats gained overall control of the council from no overall control.
The 2006 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats stayed in overall control of the council.
The 2008 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control.
The Pendle Way is a Recreational Path in the South Pennines of England which encircles the borough of Pendle. It was officially opened in 1987. The circuit is 45 miles (72 km), and according to the Long Distance Walkers Association involves 1839 m (6033 ft) ascent reaching 557 m (1,827 ft) maximum height. Its attractions include historical associations with the seventeenth century Pendle Witches, connections with the Brontës, stonebuilt villages in the traditional style of East Lancashire and the South Pennines, relics of the weaving and lead mining industry, and limestone meadows and millstone grit moorland culminating in the ascent of Pendle Hill.
The 2012 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
The Burnley built-up area is an urban area or conurbation which extends from the town of Burnley to Padiham, Brierfield, Nelson, Barrowford and Colne in Lancashire, England. The area takes in parts of the boroughs of Burnley and Pendle, and also small parts of Hyndburn and Ribble Valley. It also includes a number of villages such as Blacko, Trawden and Worsthorne. In 2011 the area was recorded at having a population of 149,422. It is the third most populous urban area in Lancashire after Preston and Blackpool, with slightly more people than the urban areas of Cambridge or York.
Pendle and Clitheroe is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the next general election.