East Riding of Yorkshire Council

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East Riding of Yorkshire
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East Riding of Yorkshire Council.svg
Type
Type
History
Founded1 April 1996
Leadership
Linda Bayram,
Conservative
since 16 May 2024 [1]
Anne Handley,
Conservative
since 18 May 2023
Chief Executive (interim)
Alan Menzies
since November 2023 [2]
Structure
Seats67 councillors
Political groups
Administration (28)
  Conservative (28)
Other parties (39)
  Liberal Democrats (21)
  Independent (9)
  Labour (5)
  Yorkshire Party (3)
  Reform UK (1)
Elections
First past the post
Last election
 4 May 2023
Next election
6 May 2027
Motto
Tradition and progress
Meeting place
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County Hall, Cross Street, Beverley, HU17 9BA
Website
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East Riding of Yorkshire Council is the local authority for the East Riding of Yorkshire, a local government district within the larger ceremonial county of the same name. It is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The council has been under no overall control since 2023, being led by a Conservative minority administration. It is based at County Hall in Beverley.

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History

The East Riding was one of the traditional subdivisions of the historic county of Yorkshire. From the middle ages the quarter sessions were held separately for each of Yorkshire's three ridings, and from 1660 there was a Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Elected county councils were established in 1889 to take over the administrative functions previously exercised by unelected magistrates at the quarter sessions. East Riding County Council was therefore created and the East Riding became an administrative county, whilst remaining part of the wider judicial and shrieval county of Yorkshire. [3] East Riding County Council based itself in Beverley, where it built County Hall in 1891. [4]

The East Riding was abolished as an administrative area in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, with most of its area passing to a new county called Humberside. [5]

Just 22 years later, in 1996, Humberside was abolished and its area was split into four districts, one of which is called East Riding of Yorkshire. Each of the four districts is legally both a non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county but with no separate county council, instead having the district council also perform county functions. The district of East Riding of Yorkshire covers a slightly different area to the pre-1974 administrative county; notably the modern district includes the area around Goole which was in the West Riding prior to 1974, but excludes some northern and western parts of the pre-1974 administrative county, including the towns of Filey and Norton-on-Derwent, which had been transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974. [6] A ceremonial county called East Riding of Yorkshire was established at the same time, with the position of Lord Lieutenant that had been abolished in 1974 being re-created. The ceremonial county covers a larger area than the district, also including the neighbouring city of Kingston upon Hull. [7] [8]

Governance

The council provides both district-level and county-level functions. [9] The whole district is also covered by civil parishes, which form a second tier of local government for their areas. [10]

Political control

The council has been under no overall control since the 2023 election, being run by a Conservative minority administration. [11]

The first election to the council was held in 1995, initially acting as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 1 April 1996. [6] Political control of the council since 1996 has been as follows: [12] [13]

Party in controlYears
No overall control 1996–2007
Conservative 2007–2023
No overall control 2023–present

Leadership

The first leader of the council, Stephen Parnaby, was the last leader of one of the predecessor councils, the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley. [14] The leaders since 1996 have been: [15]

CouncillorPartyFromTo
Stephen Parnaby [16] Conservative 1 Apr 19965 May 2019
Richard Burton [17] Conservative 16 May 201913 May 2021
Jonathan Owen [18] Conservative 13 May 202118 May 2023
Anne Handley [11] Conservative 18 May 2023

Composition

Following the 2023 election and subsequent by-elections and changes of allegiance up to February 2024, the composition of the council was as follows: [19] [20] [21]

PartyCouncillors
Conservative 28
Liberal Democrats 21
Independent 9
Labour 5
Yorkshire 3
Reform UK 1
Total67

Seven of the independent councillors sit together as the "Independent Group", the other two do not form part of a group. [22] The next election is due in 2027.

Premises

Council's offices in Goole, formerly the headquarters of Boothferry Borough Council Goole, Bank Chambers - geograph.org.uk - 1881424.jpg
Council's offices in Goole, formerly the headquarters of Boothferry Borough Council
Council's offices in Skirlaugh, formerly the headquarters of Holderness Borough Council Council Offices, Skirlaugh - geograph.org.uk - 1468293.jpg
Council's offices in Skirlaugh, formerly the headquarters of Holderness Borough Council

The council's headquarters are at County Hall in Beverley, which was completed in 1891 for the old East Riding County Council and served as the headquarters of Humberside County Council between 1974 and 1996. [4] The council has several other offices around the district, including some inherited from the pre-1996 district councils, being the Boothferry Borough Council offices in Goole, the East Yorkshire District Council offices at Bridlington Town Hall, and the Holderness Borough Council offices at Skirlaugh. [23]

Elections

Since the last full review of boundaries in 2003 the council has comprised 67 councillors representing 26 wards, with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. [24]

East Riding of Yorkshire wards East Riding of Yorkshire Council UK ward map 2010 annotated.svg
East Riding of Yorkshire wards
WardCouncillorsMap location
Beverley Rural320
Bridlington North326
Bridlington South324
Bridlington Central and Old Town225
Cottingham North212
Cottingham South211
Dale36
Driffield and Rural322
East Wolds and Coastal323
Goole North23
Goole South22
Hessle38
Howden14
Howdenshire35
Mid Holderness317
Minster and Woodmansey313
North Holderness221
Pocklington Provincial318
Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland21
South East Holderness315
South Hunsley27
South West Holderness316
St Mary's314
Tranby29
Willerby and Kirk Ella310
Wolds Weighton319

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  2. ↑ Gerrard, Joe (21 November 2023). "East Riding of Yorkshire Council: Chief executive departure marks big shake-up at crucial time in council's history". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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  6. 1 2 "The Humberside (Structural Change) Order 1995". legislation.gov.uk . The National Archives. SI 1995/600. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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