Derry and Strabane

Coordinates: 54°55′37″N 7°25′26″W / 54.927°N 7.424°W

Derry City and Strabane
District
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country Northern Ireland
Status District
Incorporated 1 April 2015
Government
 • Type District council
 • Body Derry and Strabane District Council
Time zone GMT (UTC0)
 • Summer (DST) BST (UTC+1)
Website http://www.derrycityandstrabanedistrict.com/

Derry City and Strabane is a local government district that was created on 1 April 2015 by merging the City of Derry District and Strabane District.[1] It will cover most of the northwest of Northern Ireland. The local authority is Derry and Strabane District Council.

Geography

It is located in the northwest of Northern Ireland and include parts of counties Londonderry and Tyrone, and borders County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.[2] The district has an electorate of 92,593.[3] The name of the new district was announced on 17 September 2008.

Derry and Strabane District Council

Derry City and Strabane District Council replaced Derry City Council and Strabane District Council. The first election for the new district was originally due to take place in May 2009, but in April 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011.[4] The first elections took place on 22 May 2014 and the council will acted as a shadow authority until 1 April 2015.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.lgbc-ni.org/press_release_-_revised_recommendations_-_feb_v2.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.lgbc-ni.org/introduction_compressed.pdf
  3. ↑ "Provisional Recommendations of the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner for Northern Ireland". LGBC. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
  4. ↑ Northern Ireland elections are postponed, BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008