Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council

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Barking and Dagenham Council
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Coat of arms
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Council logo
Type
Type
History
Founded1 April 1965
Leadership
Moin Quadri,
Labour
since 17 May 2024 [1]
Darren Rodwell,
Labour
since 12 June 2014 [2]
Fiona Taylor
since April 2022 [3]
Structure
Seats51 councillors
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Political groups
Administration (50)
  Labour (50)
Other parties (1)
  Independent (1)
Joint committees
 East London Waste Authority
Thames Chase Joint Committee
Thames Gateway London Partnership
London Councils
Elections
Plurality
Last election
 5 May 2022
Next election
7 May 2026
Meeting place
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Town Hall, 1 Town Square, Barking, IG11 7LU
Website
www.lbbd.gov.uk
Constitution
The Council Constitution

Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council, also known as Barking and Dagenham Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. It provides a broad range of local government services including Council Tax billing, libraries, social services, processing planning applications, waste collection and disposal, and it is a local education authority. The council has been under Labour majority control since its creation in 1965. The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 as the Barking London Borough Council and replaced two local authorities: Barking Borough Council and Dagenham Borough Council. The council was renamed on 1 January 1980. It is based at Barking Town Hall in the centre of Barking.

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History

The London Borough of Barking (as it was originally named) and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's two outgoing authorities, being the borough councils of Dagenham and Barking. The new council formally came into its powers on 1 April 1965, at which point the old districts and their councils were abolished. [4]

The pre-1965 borough of Barking had evolved from the Barking Town local government district, which had been created in 1882 covering the central part of the parish of Barking. The district was governed by an elected local board. Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894, which saw the board replaced by an urban district council. [5] [6] The Barking Town Urban District was incorporated to become a municipal borough in 1931, at which point the name was changed from Barking Town to Barking. [7] [8] Neighbouring Dagenham was a rural parish with a parish council from 1894, subordinate to the Romford Rural District Council. In 1926 the parish council was replaced when Dagenham was made an urban district; it was made a municipal borough in 1938. [9] [10]

The council changed the London borough's name from 'Barking' to 'Barking and Dagenham' with effect from 1 January 1980. [11] Since then the council's full legal name has been 'The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham'. [12]

From 1965 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater London Council. The split of powers and functions meant that the Greater London Council was responsible for "wide area" services such as fire, ambulance, flood prevention, and refuse disposal; with the borough councils (including Barking and Dagenham) responsible for "personal" services such as social care, libraries, cemeteries and refuse collection. As an outer London borough council Barking and Dagenham has been a local education authority since 1965. The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to the London Boroughs, with some services provided through joint committees. [13]

Since 2000 the Greater London Authority has taken some responsibility for highways and planning control from the council, but within the English local government system the council remains a "most purpose" authority in terms of the available range of powers and functions. [14]

Powers and functions

The local authority derives its powers and functions from the London Government Act 1963 and subsequent legislation, and has the powers and functions of a London borough council. It sets council tax and as a billing authority also collects precepts for Greater London Authority functions and business rates. [15] It sets planning policies which complement Greater London Authority and national policies, and decides on almost all planning applications accordingly. It is a local education authority and is also responsible for council housing, social services, libraries, waste collection and disposal, traffic, and most roads and environmental health. [16]

Political control

The first election was held in 1964, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 1 April 1965. Labour have held a majority of the seats on the council since its creation. [17] [18] [19] [20]

Party in controlYears
Labour 1965–present

Leadership

Political leadership is provided by the leader of the council. The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Barking and Dagenham. The leaders since 1965 have been: [21] [22]

CouncillorPartyFromTo
Ted Ball Labour 19651972
Joe Butler Labour 19721986
George Brooker Labour 19861998
Charles Fairbrass Labour 199813 May 2009
Liam Smith Labour 13 May 200912 Jun 2014
Darren Rodwell Labour 12 Jun 201418 Sep 2024
Dominic Twomey Labour 18 Sep 2024 [23]

Elections

Since the last boundary changes in 2022 the council has comprised 51 councillors representing 19 wards, with each ward electing two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years. [24]

Following the 2022 election and a subsequent change of allegiance in December 2022, the composition of the council was: [25] [26]

PartyCouncillors
Labour 50
Independent 1
Total51

By-elections are scheduled for 28 November 2024 to replace Darren Rodwell (Abbey) and Margaret Mullane (Village) who resigned, and Lee Waker (Village) who died [27] . The next full election is due in 2026.

Premises

The council is based at Barking Town Hall in Town Square. [28] The building was purpose-built for the old Barking Borough Council and was completed in 1958. [29]

Civic Centre, Dagenham: Council's offices until 2017 Dagenham Civic Offices - geograph.org.uk - 38509.jpg
Civic Centre, Dagenham: Council's offices until 2017

The council also inherited from the old Dagenham Borough Council the Civic Centre, which had been built in 1936, in the Becontree Heath area of Dagenham. [30] After the council consolidated its functions at Barking Town Hall, the Dagenham building was disused by the council in 2017 and converted to become a campus of CU London, a higher education institute run by Coventry University. [31]

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