North Tyneside Council

North Tyneside Council
Coat of Arms
Type
Type	Metropolitan district council
History
Founded	1 April 1974
Leadership
Chair of the Council	Councillor Davey Drummond, Labour Party since May 2021
Elected Mayor of North Tynesdie	Norma Redfearn, Labour Party
Chief executive	Paul Hanson since 17 November 2018
Opposition Leader	Seán Brockbank, Conservative Party
Structure
Seats	Elected mayor 60 councillors
Political groups	Administration   Labour (51) Other parties   Conservative (9)
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	6 May 2021
Next election	5 May 2022
Meeting place
Cobalt Business Park
Website
my.northtyneside.gov.uk

North Tyneside Council is the local authority of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in Tyne and Wear and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in North Tyneside.

History[]

The current local authority was first elected in 1973, a year before formally coming into its powers and prior to the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside on 1 April 1974. The council held its meetings at Wallsend Town Hall^[1] until it moved to new premises at Cobalt Business Park in 2008.^[2]

Political control[]

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:^[3]

Mayor of North Tyneside[]

Since 2002 the council has had a Directly elected mayor, which means the party with an overall majority of councillors may not be the same party exercising executive functions. Since 2013, the mayor of North Tyneside post has been held by Norma Redfearn^[4] of the Labour Party. Her predecessor was Linda Arkley of the Conservative Party.

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