Bolsover District

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Bolsover District
Non-metropolitan district
Bolsover Castle
Shown within Derbyshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East Midlands
Ceremonial county	Derbyshire
Admin. HQ	Clowne
Government
• Type	Bolsover District Council
• Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
• Executive:	Labour
• MPs:	Mark Fletcher (C)
Area
• Total	61.9 sq mi (160.3 km2)
Area rank	178th
Population  (mid-2019 est.)
• Total	80,562
• Rank	Ranked 289th
• Density	1,300/sq mi (500/km2)
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode	DE, NG, S
ONS code	17UC (ONS) E07000033 (GSS)
Ethnicity	99.1% White[citation needed]
Website	bolsover.gov.uk

Bolsover is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. It is named after the town of Bolsover, which is near the geographic centre of the district, but the council is based in Clowne. At the 2011 Census, the district had a population of 75,866.^[1]

Town and parish councils[]

There are fourteen town and parish councils within the district.

In addition to the town councils of Old Bolsover and Shirebrook, there are the parish councils of:

• Ault Hucknall
• Barlborough
• Blackwell
• Clowne
• Elmton-with-Creswell
• Glapwell
• Hodthorpe and Belph
• Pinxton
• Pleasley
• Scarcliffe
• South Normanton
• Tibshelf
• Whitwell

Other settlements include Broadmeadows, Hilcote, Langwith, , Newton, Palterton, Shirebrook and Westhouses.

The current district boundaries date from 1 April 1974, when the urban district of Bolsover was merged with Blackwell Rural District and Clowne Rural District.

Governance[]

Bolsover District Council is elected every four years, with currently 37 councillors being elected at each election. The Labour Party had a majority on the council from the first election to the council in 1973 until 2019 and after the 2019 election the council was composed of the following councillors:

As of November 2020, the Conservatives have 3 councillors after a defection from the singular Lib Dem councillor, Natalie Hoy.^[2]

The Bolsover District and the nearby North East Derbyshire, Borough of Chesterfield and Bassetlaw District alongside the High Peak Borough and Derbyshire Dales district are non-constituent members of the wider Sheffield City Region.

Local Development Framework[]

The council is currently in the process of consulting on its draft Infrastructure and Delivery Plan.^[3]

References[]

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Coordinates: 53°15′N 1°16′W / 53.25°N 1.26°W / 53.25; -1.26