Lincolnshire County Council

Lincolnshire County Council
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Type
Type
Non-metropolitan county council of Lincolnshire
Leadership
Chairman of the Council
Cllr Andrew Hagues, Conservative
Since 19 May 2017
Leader of the Council
Cllr Martin Hill OBE, Conservative
Since 2005
Structure
Seats 70 (36 needed for a majority)
Political groups
Administration
     Conservative Party (58)
Other parties
     Labour Party (6)
     Liberal Democrats (1)
     Independent (4)
     Lincolnshire Independents (1)
Length of term
 4 years
Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
 4 May 2017
Next election
 4 May 2021
Meeting place
County Offices,
Newland,
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
Website
www.lincolnshire.gov.uk

Lincolnshire County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire in England. The number of councillors was reduced from 77 to 70 at the 2017 local election.[1]

Lincolnshire mobile library at Pode Hole. Lincolnshire County Council operate five routes, covering small villages in this large, sparse, county. Each location is visited once a month.[2]

Leaders

Leaders of the council have included:

Chief executives

Chief executives have included:

  • 1973–1979: David Drury Macklin
  • 1983–1995: Robert John Dudley Proctor
  • 1995–1998: Jill Helen Barrow, who was the first woman chief executive of a county council in England.[3]
  • 1999–2004: David Bowles
  • Since 2005: Tony McArdle

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/local-democracy/about-your-county-councillor/elections-and-voting/new-electoral-divisions-for-2017/130945.article?size=zoom. Retrieved 18 April 2017. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "Mobile Libraries". Lincolnshire County Council. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2013. Wherever you live in Lincolnshire, whether in the countryside of the Wolds or Fens, the Coastal area or even on the edge of a town, a Mobile Library will stop nearby.
  3. ↑ "People", Times Education Supplement, 18 August 1995. Retrieved 12 November 2017.


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