Trafford Council

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Trafford Council
Trafford Council logo.svg
Type
Type
History
Founded1 April 1974
Leadership
Amy Whyte,
Labour
since 22 May 2024 [1] [2]
Tom Ross,
Labour
since 17 December 2022 [3]
Sara Todd
since 1 February 2019
Structure
Seats63 councillors
Trafford Couuncil 2024.svg
Political groups
Administration (43)
  Labour (43)
Other parties (20)
  Conservative (8)
  Green (6)
  Liberal Democrats (6)
Joint committees
 Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel
Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
 2 May 2024
Next election
7 May 2026
Meeting place
Stretford Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 5295314.jpg
Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 0TH
Website
trafford.gov.uk

Trafford Council, or Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the borough. The council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority since 2011.

Contents

The council has been under Labour majority control since 2019. It is based at Trafford Town Hall in Stretford.

History

The Metropolitan Borough of Trafford and its council were created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as one of ten metropolitan districts within the new metropolitan county of Greater Manchester. The first election was held in 1973. For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's seven outgoing authorities, being the borough councils of Altrincham, Sale and Stretford, the urban district councils of Bowdon, Hale, and Urmston, and the Bucklow Rural District Council (in respect of four of its parishes only). The new metropolitan district and its council formally came into being on 1 April 1974, at which point the old districts and their councils were abolished. [4]

The metropolitan district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. [5] The council styles itself Trafford Council rather than its full formal name of Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. [6] [7]

From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater Manchester's ten borough councils, including Trafford, with some services provided through joint committees. [8]

Since 2011 the council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which has been led by the directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. The combined authority provides strategic leadership and co-ordination for certain functions across Greater Manchester, notably regarding transport and town planning, but Trafford Council continues to be responsible for most local government functions. [9] [10]

Governance

Trafford Council provides metropolitan borough services. Some strategic functions in the area are provided by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; the leader of Trafford Council sits on the combined authority as Trafford's representative. [11] There are four civil parishes in the borough at Carrington, Dunham Massey, Partington and Warburton, which form an additional tier of local government for their areas; the rest of the borough is unparished. [12]

Political control

The council has been under Labour majority control since 2019.

Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms took effect has been as follows: [13] [14]

Party in controlYears
Conservative 1974–1986
No overall control 1986–1988
Conservative 1988–1995
No overall control 1995–1996
Labour 1996–2003
No overall control 2003–2004
Conservative 2004–2018
No overall control 2018–2019
Labour 2019–present

Leadership

The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Trafford. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 1974 have been: [15]

CouncillorPartyFromTo
Arthur Littler Conservative 1 April 197422 May 1974
Frank Eadie Conservative 22 May 19741975
Michael King Conservative 19751976
Colin Warbrick Conservative 19761977
Michael King Conservative 19771978
Jonathan Taylor Conservative 19781982
Michael King Conservative 19821985
Colin Warbrick Conservative 19851986
Barry Brotherton Labour 19861988
Colin Warbrick Conservative 19881993
Frank Eadie Conservative 19931995
Beverley Hughes Labour 19951997
David Acton Labour 19972004
Susan Williams Conservative 200419 May 2009
Matthew Colledge Conservative 19 May 200913 Mar 2014
Sean Anstee Conservative 13 Mar 201423 May 2018
Andrew Western Labour 23 May 20184 Jan 2023
Tom Ross Labour 4 Jan 2023

Composition

Following the 2024 election, the composition of the council was: [16]

PartyCouncillors
Labour 43
Conservative 8
Green 6
Liberal Democrats 6
Total63

The next election is due in May 2026.

Elections

Since the last boundary changes in 2023, the council has comprised 63 councillors representing 21 wards, with each ward electing three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council (one councillor for each ward) elected each time for a four-year term of office. [17]

Wards and councillors

Each ward is represented by three councillors. [18]

Parliamentary constituencyWardCouncillorPartyTerm of office
Altrincham & Sale
West constituency 		Altrincham Geraldine Coggins Green 2023–27
Daniel Jerrome Green 2023–26
Michael Welton Green 2024–28
Ashton upon Mersey Shona Gilbert Labour 2023–27
Ben Hartley Labour 2023–26
Tony O'Brien Labour 2024-28
Bowdon Phil Eckersley Conservative 2023–27
Shengke Zhi Conservative 2023–26
Lisa Hancock Conservative 2024-28
Broadheath Denise Western Labour 2023–27
Amy Whyte Labour 2023–26
Ulrich Savary Labour 2024-28
Hale Barns & Timperley South Dylan Butt Conservative 2023–27
Nathan Evans Conservative 2023–26
Michael Taylor Conservative 2024-28
Hale Jane Leicester Green 2023–27
Hannah Spencer Green 2023–26
Owain Sutton Green 2024-28
Manor Rob Duncan Conservative 2023–27
John Holden Conservative 2023–26
Keleigh Glenton Labour 2024-28
Timperley Central Shaun Ennis Liberal Democrats 2023–27
Julian Newgrosh Liberal Democrats 2023–26
Simon Lepori Liberal Democrats 2024-28
Timperley North Jane Brophy Liberal Democrats 2023–27
Will Frass Liberal Democrats 2023–26
Meena Minnis Liberal Democrats 2024-28
Stretford & Urmston
constituency 		Bucklow-St. Martins Frances Cosby Labour 2023–27
Aidan Williams Labour 2023–26
James Wright Labour 2024-28
Davyhulme Sue Maitland Labour 2023–27
Karina Carter Labour 2023–26
Barry Winstanley Labour 2024-28
Flixton Ged Carter Labour 2023–27
Dolores O'Sullivan Labour 2023–26
Simon Thomas Labour 2024-28
Gorse Hill & Cornbrook David Acton Labour 2023–27
Fianna Hornby Labour 2023–26
George Devlin Labour 2024-28
Longford Sarah Haughey Labour 2023–27
Judith Lloyd Labour 2023–26
Dave Jarman Labour 2024-28
Lostock & Barton Jill Axford Labour 2023–27
Mike Cordingley Labour 2023–26
Shirley Procter Labour 2024-28
Old Trafford Waseem Hassan Labour 2023–27
Emma Hirst Labour 2023–26
Sophie Taylor Labour 2024-28
Stretford & Humphrey Park Stephen Adshead Labour 2023–27
Jane Slater Labour 2023–26
Tom Ross Labour 2024-28
Urmston Joanne Harding Labour 2023–27
Catherine Hynes Labour 2023–26
Kevin Procter Labour 2024-28
Wythenshawe & Sale
East constituency 		Brooklands Will Jones Labour 2023–27
Rose Thompson Labour 2023–26
Bilal Babar Labour 2024-28
Sale Central Barry Brotherton Labour 2023–27
Eve Parker Labour 2023–26
Zak Deakin Labour 2024-28
Sale Moor Joanne Bennett Labour 2023–27
Liz Patel Labour 2023–26
Olly Baskerville Labour 2024-28

Premises

The council is based at Trafford Town Hall, on Talbot Road in Stretford. The building was originally called Stretford Town Hall, having been completed in 1933 for the former Stretford Borough Council, one of Trafford Council's predecessors. [19] Most of the council's offices are in a modern extension to the rear of the building which opened in 2013, replacing an earlier office extension of 1983 on the same site. [20]

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