![]() įollowing the 2023 local elections and the Conservative loss of 11 councillors, a new independent-led leadership took control of the council. However that coalition only controls 9 out of 39 seats on the council, so deals may need to be cut in order for their programme to get through. In May 2021, Liberal Democrat Lawrence Nichols became the leader of the council, with the Lib Dem group ruling in coalition with one of the independent groups. In June 2020, after the resignation of six Conservative Councillors, Spelthorne Borough fell into no overall political control ( NOC) for the first time in the borough's history. The proposal was generally opposed, and so not tabled as a motion, by representatives in either county. In August 2014 a campaign group of local business leaders called for the borough – along with others close to the capital – to be transferred from the county of Surrey to Greater London. This compared to internal damage to more than 30% of homes in the neighbouring settlement of Wraysbury in the borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. The rest of Surrey falls into the Anglican dioceses of Guildford and Southwark, and the Roman Catholic diocese of Arundel and Brighton.įloods in 2014 caused internal damage to 891 (or 2.2%) of homes in Spelthorne due to record rainfall causing Thames flooding. Spelthorne remains part of the Church of England Diocese of London and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster. Spelthorne, like Potters Bar and South Mimms, remained inside the Metropolitan Police District whose jurisdiction was aligned to Greater London in 2000 it then transferred to Surrey Police. The borough ceded a small amount of land in 1995, when Poyle was transferred to the Borough of Slough, as it was the only land outside the M25 motorway. ![]() The Borough of Spelthorne was formed on the abolition of the urban districts and rural districts nationally in 1974. In 1965, Staines Urban District and Sunbury-on-Thames Urban Districts were transferred to Surrey. In 1930, most of Staines Rural District merged into Staines Urban District, with the remainder given to West Drayton and Feltham Urban Districts. The 20th century saw the construction of the two Staines Reservoirs (1901), Queen Mary (1931), King George VI (1947), and the Wraysbury Reservoirs (1970) in what is today's borough. ![]() Under the Local Government Act 1894, in the area of the current borough responsibilities such as planning, sanitation and surface water drainage were conferred on the new bodies Staines Urban, Sunbury Urban and Staines Rural districts. In 1889, Middlesex County Council was elected and formed pursuant to the Local Government Act 1888 and principally administered the area until 1965. In 1875, Sanitary Districts were created covering England and Wales. The poor law unions assumed responsibility for indoor and outdoor relief, later including workhouses: ![]() Ecclesiastical parishes assumed responsibilities for upkeep of public places and roads and apprehending wrongdoers, appointing churchwardens and constables to administer their areas. Hundreds dwindled in power in the late Middle Ages, and by the Tudor period they were largely sources of revenue for certain overlords, underlying freeholds and rights over their commons frequently held or divided among royalty or peers in a particular hundred. This covered 13 settlements: Ashford, Charlton, East Bedfont, West Bedfont, Feltham, Kempton, Hanworth, Hatton, Laleham, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, and Sunbury. Spelthorne appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Speletorne hund. See also: Staines Urban District and Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District ![]()
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