Warwick (district)

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Warwick District
Shown within Warwickshire	Warwickshire within England
Geography
Status:	Shire district
Region:	West Midlands
Admin. County:	Warwickshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 161st 282.88 km²
Admin. HQ:	Royal Leamington Spa
ONS code:	44UF
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 123rd 140,300 496 / km²
Ethnicity:	92.9% White 4.7% S.Asian
Politics
Warwick District Council http://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Labour / Liberal Democrats
MPs:	James Plaskitt, Jeremy Wright

Warwick is a local government district of central Warwickshire in England.

The district comprises the towns of Warwick itself, Leamington Spa, Kenilworth and Whitnash, and also includes the surrounding rural areas. The district is bordered to the south and west by Stratford district to the north-east by Rugby borough and to the north by Coventry City Council.

Despite being named after Warwick, the district council headquarters are actually based in Leamington Spa. It employs over 500 people in a four storey building near to the River Leam. Warwick hosts the county council headquarters. The district council deal with issues such as waste management, council tax, planning/building regulations, council housing and council house repairs.

The district was created on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the former Leamington Spa and Warwick municipal boroughs, the Kenilworth urban district and the Warwick Rural District. The council claims to have the 33rd cheapest council tax out of the 238 shire districts in the country[1]. The district is trialing a scheme which will allow all residents, for a fee, to connect to wireless broadband internet anywhere in the district, indoors or out[2]. This is the first such scheme in Europe.