Middlesbrough Council | |
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 Coat of arms[1] | |
 Logo | |
| Leadership | |
Clive Heaphy since 2023[3] | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 47 (46 councillors plus elected mayor) |
Political groups |
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Joint committees | Tees Valley Combined Authority |
| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
Last election | 4 May 2023 |
Next election | 6 May 2027 |
| Meeting place | |
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| Town Hall, Albert Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 2QJ | |
| Website | |
| www | |
Middlesbrough Council, also known as Middlesbrough Borough Council, is the local authority for Middlesbrough, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Since 1996 it has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The council is led by the directly elected Mayor of Middlesbrough.
Since 2016 the council has been a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, which has been led by the directly elected Tees Valley Mayor since 2017. As such there are two directly elected mayors covering Middlesbrough: the Tees Valley Mayor covers the five local authorities in the Tees Valley area and provides strategic leadership and oversight of partnership working between the area's authorities, whilst the Mayor of Middlesbrough provides political leadership just for the borough of Middlesbrough, overseeing the delivery of the council's functions. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2023. It meets at Middlesbrough Town Hall.
- ^ "Middlesbrough's coat of arms". Middlesbrough.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
"Middlesbrough". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 25 August 2022. - ^ "Council minutes, 24 May 2023". Middlesbrough Council. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ Craigie, Emily (23 March 2023). "Middlesbrough Council: New chief exec appointed at troubled authority". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 25 February 2024.