Borough of Fareham
The Borough of Fareham is a local govrenment destrict an burgh in Hampshire, Ingland. Its cooncil is based in Fareham. Ither places athin the Borough include Portchester, Stubbington, Hill Head, Titchfield, Warsash, Locks Heath, Sarisbury an hauf o Whiteley. The Borough covers hintle o the semi-urban aurie atween the ceeties o Soothampton an Portsmouth, an is pairt o the Sooth Hampshire conurbation, wi mony residents commutin tae the twa ceeties for employment.
Borough of Fareham | |
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 Fareham shown athin Hampshire | |
| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
| Constituent kintra | Ingland |
| Region | Sooth East Ingland |
| Nan-metropolitan coonty | Hampshire |
| Status | Nan-metropolitan destrict |
| Adeein HQ | Fareham |
| Incorporatit | 1 Aprile 1974 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Nan-metropolitan destrict cooncil |
| • Bodi | Fareham Borough Council |
| • Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (Conservative) |
| • MPs | Mark Hoban Caroline Dinenage |
| Area | |
| • Total | 74.2 km2 (28.6 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 250t (o 326) |
| Population (mid-2016 est.) | |
| • Rank | 199t (o 326) |
| • Ethnicity | 98.3% White |
| Time zone | UTC0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| ONS code | 24UE |
| OS grid reference | SU5802906461 |
| Website | www |
The Fareham urban destrict wis reconstitutit as a non-metropolitan destrict bi the Local Govrenment Act 1972 on 1 Aprile 1974 an gained burgh status.
The Borough of Fareham covers the aurie frae Portchester in the east tae Warsash in the wast, sooth tae Stubbington an Hill Head an north tae include pairt o Whiteley. It is unuisual for a relatively sma burgh in that it haes twa Members o Parliament (Stubbington an Hill Head are pairt o the Gosport constituency), twa post touns (the wast o the burgh is in the Soothampton post toun) an three telephone diallin codes (maistly 01329 but 01489 in the wast o the burgh an aw an 023 in the extreme east).
The 2001 Census foond Fareham tae hae lawer than average unemployment an creeme wi hoose prices heicher than average. The population o the burgh wis estimatit at aboot 111,000 wi an average age o 40.3 years.
Govrenance
eeditThe Borough Council is Conservative controlled an haes been syne 1999.[1] Follaein the elections on 3 Mey 2012, o the 31 Councillors, 24 are Conservative, 6 Liberal Democrat an 1 independent, representin 15 wairds.[2] The mayor o the Borough, currently Conservative Councillor Dennis Steadman, is electit each year bi his or her fellae cooncillors an is the Civic Head o the Borough.[3] Thare is a Deputy Mayor an aw.[3]
The wairds[4] are:
- Fareham East
- Fareham North
- Fareham North-West
- Fareham South
- Fareham West
- Hill Head
- Locks Heath
- Park Gate
- Portchester East
- Portchester West
- Sarisbury
- Stubbington
- Titchfield
- Titchfield Common
- Warsash
Bundaries
eeditThe present bundaries date frae 1932 when the parishes o Crofton, Hook with Warsash, Portchester, Sarisbury an Titchfield, aw previously pairt o the Fareham Rural District wur addit tae Fareham urban destrict.[5]
The wastren bundary o the burgh, wi the Borough of Eastleigh, is the River Hamble. Tae the north is the City of Winchester; tae the east the City of Portsmouth, a unitary authority; an tae the sooth the Borough of Gosport. The sooth wast an sooth east edges o the burgh are baith pairt o the Breetish coastline, borderin the Solent.
References
eedit- ↑ "Fareham". BBC News Online. 19 Apryle 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2010. Italic or bold markup not allowed in:
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Fareham Borough Council: Political Parties". www.fareham.gov.uk. 2012. Archived frae the original on 5 Mairch 2012. Retrieved 30 Mey 2012. Unknown parameter
|month=ignored (help) - ↑ a b "Fareham Borough Council: The Mayor of Fareham". www.fareham.gov.uk. Archived frae the original (ASP) on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 20 Januar 2007.
- ↑ "Fareham Borough Council: Boundary Ward Map". www.fareham.gov.uk. Archived frae the original (ASP) on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 20 Januar 2007.
- ↑ "Fareham UD Hampshire through time". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. 2006. Archived frae the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2006. Unknown parameter
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