THE SUCCESSOR AUTHORITIES CHAPTER 53 The new structures and resources Introduction 53.01 The statements in this chapter are based on the written evidence of the successor authorities to the former Clwyd and Gwynedd County Councils submitted to the Tribunal in December 1997 and some figures which were supplied by them early in 1998. We emphasise that some of the information is subject to frequent change and we have given relevant dates wherever possible. 53.02 Under the provisions of section 1 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 and Schedule 1 to that Act six new principal areas of local government were established in North Wales on 1 April 1996. These were the four counties of Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire (which adopted the single name of Gwynedd on 2 April 1996), Anglesey, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the two county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn (subsequently called, singly, Conwy) and Wrexham. 53.03 The relative approximate sizes and resources of the new areas and councils in April 1996 are summarised in the following table: Council Population Area (hectares) Size of Council Total net budget (£000s) Percentage expenditure on Social Services Anglesey 68,500 71,500 40 62,580* 17.2 Conwy 110,700 113,000 60 79,000 20.4 Gwynedd 118,000 255,000 83 107,000 18.4 Denbighshire 89,000** 84,000 48 83,500 18.4 Flintshire 145,000 43,700 72 117,800 21.5 Wrexham 123,500 49,900 52 101,422 19.5 * This is the budget for 1997/1998 because we were not given the figures for the previous year. ** Denbighshire lost the area of Llangollen Rural (population about 1,800) in April 1997 to Wrexham. The population and area given exclude Llangollen Rural. Broadly speaking, the first three areas replaced the former county of Gwynedd and the latter three replaced the former county of Clwyd but Conwy includes parts of Clwyd. 53.04 Five of the six new councils appointed a Director of Social Services from the senior or departmental management team of their former county (in Conwy, the new Director was from the former Gwynedd). Wrexham, however, brought together Housing and Social Services under a Director of Personal Services, with a Chief Social Services Officer as one of three officers directly under him.
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