High Peak Borough Council

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Borough of High Peak
Shown within Derbyshire
Geography
Status:	Non-metropolitan district; Borough
Region:	East Midlands
Admin. County:	Derbyshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 92nd 540.25 km²
Admin. HQ:	Chapel-en-le-Frith
ONS code:	17UH
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 249th 91,100 169 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.7% White
Politics
High Peak Borough Council http://www.highpeak.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative / Liberal Democrats / Independent

High Peak Borough Council is the local authority for is a Non-metropolitan district and borough of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire, England. It is made up of 43 councillors. Currently the council is controlled by the Labour Party (althought they have no overall control).

1 History
2 Leader and Mayor
3 Political Make-up
4 Wards
5 Sources
6 External links

[edit] History

The High Peak Borough Council was formed on April 1, 1974 by absorbing the municipal boroughs of Buxton and Glossop, the urban districts of New Mills and Whaley Bridge and the rural district of Chapel-en-le-Frith, all of which had previously been in the administrative county of Derbyshire, as well as the rural district of Tintwistle which had been in the administrative county of Cheshire.

[edit] Leader and Mayor

The current Leader of High Peak Borough Council is Councillor David William Lomax. He first took up the post in 1991. He represents the Whaley Bridge Ward for the Liberal Democrat Party.
The current Mayor of the High Peak is Councillor Derek Udale. Since 1999 he has represented Limestone Peak ward on High Peak Borough Council. He has been a parish councillor since 1970, and has been Chairman of Wormhill Parish Council for nineteen years.