Hartlepool Borough
Unitary authority area, borough
Borough of Hartlepool, Hartlepool Borough
The borough within County Durham and England
The borough within County Durham and England
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
RegionNorth East England
Combined authorityTees Valley
Ceremonial countyCounty Durham
Government
 • Tees Valley Mayor:Ben Houchen
 • MPs:Jill Mortimer (C)
Area
 • Total36.19 sq mi (93.72 km2)
 • Rank204th
Population
 (2021)
 • Total92,571
 • RankRanked 258th
 • Density2,600/sq mi (990/km2)
Time zoneUTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ONS code00EB (ONS)
E06000001 (GSS)
Ethnicity97.9% White
1.0% S.Asian
(Census 2011)

The Borough of Hartlepool is a unitary authority area in ceremonial County Durham, England. The borough's largest town is Hartlepool.

It borders the County Durham district as well as the boroughs of Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees. The local authority is Hartlepool Borough Council, a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority.

In 2003 it had a resident population of 90,161, increasing to 92,028 at the 2011 Census.[1] It is made up of 17 council wards and the Hartlepool constituency has been coterminous with the council area since the 1983 parliamentary redistribution.

History

Type 1Type 2
Hartlepool Municipal borough (1850–1967)
West Hartlepool Municipal borough (1887–1902) County borough (1902–1967)
Hartlepools County borough (1967–1974)
Hartlepool Non-metropolitan borough (1974–1996) Unitary authority (1996–present)

After several unification efforts starting in 1902, the county borough of Hartlepool was formed in 1967 by the merger of the original borough of Hartlepool (the "Headland") with the county borough of West Hartlepool further south on Tees Bay, together with the parish of Seaton Carew to provide coastal land for industrial development.[2]

The borough was reformed and enlarged on 1 April 1974, by the merger of the previous county borough of Hartlepool, along with the parishes of Brierton, Claxton, Dalton Piercy, Elwick, Elwick Hall, Greatham, Hart and Newton Bewley, from the Stockton Rural District, all of which had been part of the administrative county of Durham. The enlarged borough was transferred at the same time from County Durham to the new non-metropolitan county of Cleveland.

Cleveland was abolished in 1996 after a review by the Banham Commission, with the four boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Redcar & Cleveland and Middlesbrough becoming unitary authorities. For ceremonial purposes Hartlepool returned to County Durham, however it continues to share certain local services with the other former Cleveland boroughs, including the Cleveland Police and Cleveland Fire Brigade.

In May 2021, four parish councils of the villages of Elwick, Hart, Dalton Piercy and Greatham all issued individual votes of no confidence in Hartlepool Borough Council, and expressed their desire to re-join County Durham.[3]

Council

Hartlepool Borough Council
Type
Type
Leadership
Shane Moore,
Independent Union
since 16 May 2023[4]
Mike Young,
Conservative
since 16 May 2023
Denise McGuckin
since 7 September 2020[5]
Structure
Seats36 councillors
Political groups
Administration (18)
  Conservative (12)
  Independent (5)
  Independent Union (1)
Opposition (18)
  Labour (18)
Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
4 May 2023
Next election
2024
Meeting place
Civic Centre, Victoria Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8AY
Website
www.hartlepool.gov.uk

Since 2 May 2013 the council has used the leader and committee hybrid model of executive arrangements. The executive function of Hartlepool Borough Council was controlled by a directly elected mayor of Hartlepool from 2002 to 2013. On 9 May 2019, The former Labour Council leader Christopher Akers-Belcher and two fellow party members, defected to the Socialist Labour Party following the Labour Party's defeat in the recent local elections.[6] On 13 September 2019, ten independent councillors defected to the Brexit Party. The Conservative councillors then formed a pact with the Brexit Party councillors to become the largest group on the council.[7]

In March 2021, four parish councils of the villages of Elwick, Hart, Dalton Piercy and Greatham all issued individual votes of no confidence in Hartlepool Borough Council due to a planning application being passed that they disagreed with, and hoped to use the issue to influence the outcome of the Local Elections.[8] [3]

Elected mayor

Between 2002 and 2013, Hartlepool was one of a small number of councils in the United Kingdom to have a directly elected mayor. This followed a referendum held in the borough in October 2001,[9] and the first mayoral election was held in May 2002. The election became famous for being won by the mascot of Hartlepool United F.C., 'H'Angus the Monkey',[10] with a majority of approximately 500 over the second-placed Labour Party candidate. The man inside the monkey costume, Stuart Drummond, served as mayor as an independent, being re-elected in 2005 with a majority of over 10,000[11] and again in 2009 with a second round majority of 844.

In November 2012 Hartlepool voted in a referendum to abolish the directly elected mayor and return to having the council leader model used by most English councils.[12] 7,366 voted against the directly elected mayor system, while 5,177 voted to retain it, on a turnout of 18%.[12]

Settlements

Settlements in the borough include:

Demography

Ethnicity

Ethnic Group Year
1991[13] 2001[14] 2011[15] 2021[16]
Number % Number % Number % Number %
White: Total 89,765 99.3% 87,569 98.8% 89,899 97.7% 89,068 96.4%
White: British – – 86,874 98% 88,924 96.6% 87,761 95.0%
White: Irish – – 235 193 170 0.2%
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller – – – – 40 37 0.0%
White: Roma 19 0.0%
White: Other – – 460 742 1,081 1.2%
Asian or Asian British: Total 486 0.5% 602 0.7% 1,304 1.4% 1,600 1.7%
Asian or Asian British: Indian 160 187 266 335 0.4%
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani 106 204 291 297 0.3%
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi 73 73 214 278 0.3%
Asian or Asian British: Chinese 94 110 229 217 0.2%
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 53 28 304 473 0.5%
Black or Black British: Total 78 – 70 – 170 0.2% 445 0.6%
Black or Black British: African 31 – 36 – 36 327 0.4%
Black or Black British: Caribbean 21 – 16 – 129 57 0.1%
Black or Black British: Other Black 26 – 18 – 5 61 0.1%
Mixed or British Mixed: Total – – 311 0.4% 550 0.6% 671 0.8%
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean – – 85 – 180 143 0.2%
Mixed: White and Black African – – 34 – 54 115 0.1%
Mixed: White and Asian – – 94 – 173 240 0.3%
Mixed: Other Mixed – – 98 – 143 173 0.2%
Other: Total 80 – 59 – 105 0.1% 554 0.6%
Other: Arab – – – – 57 270 0.3%
Other: Any other ethnic group 80 – 59 – 48 284 0.3%
Total 90,409 100% 88,611 100% 92,028 100% 92,338 100%

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees at current basic prices published Archived 22 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

YearRegional Gross Value Added[note 1]Agriculture[note 2]Industry[note 3]Services[note 4]
19952,80491,4431,352
20003,25261,3591,887
20033,36461,0372,320
Notes
  1. ↑ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
  2. ↑ includes hunting and forestry
  3. ↑ includes energy and construction
  4. ↑ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

References

  1. ↑ "Unitary Authority population 2011". Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Hartlepool Order 1966 Commons debate and Lords debate
  3. 1 2 Nic Marko (10 May 2021), Four Hartlepool villages have 'no confidence' in borough council and want to join Durham, Hartlepool: Hartlepool Mail
  4. ↑ Marko, Nic (19 May 2023). "'Humbled and honoured' former Hartlepool council leader becomes town's new mayor". Hartlepool Mail. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  5. ↑ Marko, Nic (11 June 2020). "Meet the new woman at the helm of Hartlepool council as new leadership team announced". Hartlepool Mail. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Fiona (9 May 2019). "Hartlepool Council leader Christopher Akers-Belcher and two fellow party members resign from Labour". Hartlepool Mail. Hartlepool. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  7. ↑ Scott, Jim (13 September 2019). "The Brexit Party takes hold of Hartlepool Borough Council". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  8. ↑ https://web-cdn.org/s/40//file/Council/Minutes/2020-21/Minutes-of-Extraordinary-Meeting-held-2.pdf
  9. ↑ Mark Sandford (March 2002). "Who wants an elected mayor? Lessons from the first wave". New Economy. Institute of Public Policy Research. 9 (1): 47–51. doi:10.1111/1468-0041.00239.
  10. ↑ BBC News (3 May 2002). "Monkey mascot elected mayor". Retrieved 14 March 2008.
  11. ↑ BBC News (6 May 2005). "Winning 'monkey' mayor gains wife". Retrieved 14 March 2008.
  12. 1 2 Mulholland, Hélène (16 November 2012). "Mayor H'Angus the Monkey finally loses his Hartlepool habitat". The Guardian. London: 16 November 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  13. ↑ Data is taken from United Kingdom Casweb Data services of the United Kingdom 1991 Census on Ethnic Data for England, Scotland and Wales (Table 6)
  14. ↑ "Office of National Statistics; 2001 Census Key Statistics". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  15. ↑ "2011 Census: Ethnic Group, local authorities in England and Wales". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  16. ↑ "Ethnic group - Office for National Statistics". www.ons.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2022.

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