The Borough of Middlesbrough is a district in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Tees Valley region, along with the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington. The district covers the town of Middlesbrough, Nunthorpe civil parish and Stainton and Thornton civil parish. Since its creation in 1974, it has had borough status and the governing Middlesbrough Council became a unitary authority in 1996.
History
The borough was preceded by the County Borough of Teesside in the North Riding of Yorkshire, having previously been an independent municipal borough from 1856 to 1968. The current borough boundaries were formed on 1 April 1974, by the creation of a new non-metropolitan district of the new county of Cleveland by the Local Government Act 1972, covering the previous borough of Middlesbrough along with nearly all of Middlesbrough Rural District. It was reconstituted as a unitary authority, alongside the abolition of Cleveland, on 1 April 1997. For ceremonial purposes it is part of North Yorkshire, though certain local services are still aligned to 1974 boundaries, including Cleveland Fire Brigade and Police. It is included within the Tees Valley Combined Authority area for devolved transport and economic governance.
County Borough/ district Name Type Dependent Type From Until NotesYorkshireHistoricMunicipal borough18561889North Riding of YorkshireAdministrativeCounty borough18891974Merged into Teesside CB in 1968Cleveland (county town)Non-metropolitanNon-metropolitan district19741996North YorkshireCeremonialUnitary authority1996
Areas of the borough The borough contains the following areas:
Structure The borough is made up of 19 council wards (formerly 21 as Gresham ward merged with Newport ward between the 2011 and 2021 censuses) within the borough of Middlesbrough. Each ward has a non-statutory community committee. There are also two statutory parish councils for "Nunthorpe" and "Stainton and Thornton". East, north and west Middlesbrough as well as parts of Park End-and-Beckfield, Berwick-Hils-and-Pallister and Ladgate are covered by the Middlesbrough parliamentary constituency. South Middlesbrough as well as the other parts of the wards are covered by the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland parliamentary constituency.
The council operates a with directly elected Mayor of Middlesbrough. The political composition of the council, as of the May 2019 local election, is Independent 23, Labour 20; and Conservative 3.
+Political party make-up of Middlesbrough Borough Council Party Seats Current council Independent 23 Labour 20 Conservative 3 Teesside International Airport (formerly known as Durham Tees Valley Airport), is joint owned by the borough and the other four Tees Valley councils The council also owns multiple buildings in the borough.
Mayor
+The first ten mayors of Middlesbrough Year Name of Mayor 1853 Henry Bolckow 1854 Issac Wilson 1855 John Vaughan 1856 Henry Thompson 1858 John Richardson 1859 William Fallows 1860 George Bottomley 1861 James Harris 1862 Thomas Brentnall 1863 Edgar Gilkes +The first directly elected mayors of Middlesbrough Years Name of Mayor 2002–2015 Ray Mallon 2015–2019 Dave Budd 2019–2023 Andy Preston 2023– Chris Cooke The first mayor of Middlesbrough was the German-born Henry Bolckow in 1853. In the 20th century, encompassing introduction of universal suffrage in 1918 and changes in local government in the United Kingdom, the role of mayor changed and became largely ceremonial.
In 2001, as part of a wider programme of devolution, voters in Middlesbrough were offered a referendum to decide between a directly elected mayor or the cabinet system then in operation, with the traditional civic and ceremonial functions of the Mayors being transferred to the Chair of Middlesbrough Council, which they did so by a large margin.
In 2002, Ray Mallon (Independent), formerly a senior officer in Cleveland Police, became Middlesbrough's first directly elected mayor. He was re-elected in 2007 and then in 2011. Mallon chose not to stand for a fourth term in 2015 and his deputy mayor, Dave Budd (Labour) was elected to succeed him. Budd decided not to stand for a second term and in the May 2019 mayoral election, local businessman Andy Preston (independent) won with 59% of the vote.
Demography
Borough The borough of Middlesbrough's total resident population was , by the The population of Middlesbrough as a county borough peaked at almost 165,000 in the late 1960s, however this has declined since the early 1980s before starting to recover in the 2010s.
Women in the former Middlehaven ward (absorbed into the central ward) had the second lowest life expectancy at birth, 74 years, of any ward in England and Wales in 2016. In the borough of Middlesbrough, 14.0% of the population were non-white British. Ethnic GroupYear1961 estimates2001 census2011 census2021 censusNumber%Number%Number%Number%White: Total155,86199.03%126,39993.7%122,05588.1%118,54782.3%White: British––124,53292.3%119,10686%114,42179.5%White: Irish––726574434White: Roma––85160White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller––320White: Other––1,1412,2903,212Asian or Asian British: Total––6,4154.7%10,7687.8%15,09010.5%Asian or Asian British: Indian––8461,4772,804Asian or Asian British: Pakistani––4,8393.6%6,8118,9906.2%Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi––77244595Asian or Asian British: Chinese––263904669Asian or Asian British: Other Asian––3901,3322,032Black or Black British: Total––4771,7313,8162.7%Black or Black British: African––3031,4703,339Black or Black British: Caribbean––12892162Other Black––46169315Mixed or British Mixed: Total––1,2692,3623,001Mixed: White and Black Caribbean––317541570Mixed: White and Black African––208452650Mixed: White and Asian––4759041,110Mixed: Other Mixed––269465671Other: Total––2951,4963,468Other: Arab––––9501,452Other: Any other ethnic group––2955462,016Non-White: Total1,5340.97%8,45616,35725,375Total157,395100%134,855100%138,412100%143,922100%
Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Middlesbrough at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. Year Regional Gross Value Added Agriculture Industry Services 1995 1,115 8 377 729 2000 1,192 6 417 768 2003 1,538 6 561 971
includes hunting and forestry
includes energy and construction
includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
Freedom of the Borough The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Middlesbrough.
Individuals Joseph Calvert: 7 November 1919. L. Taylor – 30 March 1967 (deceased 23 May 1983) Monsignor Canon M O'Sullivan – 26 March 1968 (deceased 6 May 1978) Mary A. Daniel – 16 October 1974 (deceased 23 December 1983) Ethel A. Gaunt – 16 October 1974 (deceased 10 June 1990) Lord Bottomley of Middlesbrough in the County of Cleveland – 21 December 1976 (deceased 3 November 1995) E. A. Dickinson – 8 May 1981 (deceased 2001) Rose M. Haston – 9 May 1986 (deceased 22 January 1991) Arthur Pearson – 9 May 1986 (deceased 23 February 1997) Robert I. Smith – 9 May 1986 (deceased 23 February 1993) W. Ferrier – 16 June 1992 (deceased 4 March 2015) G. Popple – 16 June 1992 (deceased 10 May 2003) Len Poole – 16 June 1992 (deceased 15 May 2011) John Robert Foster – 8 March 1996 (deceased 12 May 2022) Alma Collin – 15 March 2000 (deceased 2014) Hazel Pearson – 3 December 2003 (deceased 5 February 2016) Steve Gibson – 18 March 2004 Jack Hatfield – 30 June 2009 (deceased January 2014) Mackenzie Thorpe – 11 April 2019 Gareth Southgate - 28 July 2021.
Military units The Green Howards: 13 May 1944, transferred to the Yorkshire Regiment: 25 October 2006. The 34th (Northern) Signal Regiment (Volunteers): 29 April 1972. , RN: 15 March 2000.
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