Metropolitan Borough of Sefton

For the settlement, see Sefton, Merseyside.

This article is about the local government district. For other uses, see Sefton.

Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
—  Metropolitan borough  —
Southport Town Hall
Sefton
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North West England
Ceremonial county	Merseyside
Founded	1 April 1974
Admin. HQ	Bootle and Southport
Government
– Type	Metropolitan Borough
– Governing body	Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
– Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
– Executive:	All-Party Coalition
– Leader of the Council	Cllr Peter Dowd Labour Party
– MPs:	Joe Benton, Labour Bill Esterson, Labour John Pugh, Lib Dem
Area
– Total	59.1 sq mi (153.1 km2)
Area rank	186th
Population (2010 est.)
– Total	272,900
– Rank	Ranked 37th
– Density	4,616.6/sq mi (1,782.5/km2)
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
– Summer (DST)	British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Postcode	L, PR
ISO 3166-2
ONS code	00CA
OS grid reference
NUTS 3
Ethnicity	98.4% White
Website	http://www.sefton.gov.uk/

The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. Its local authority is Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council. Sefton was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, by the amalgamation of the former county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, and, from the administrative county of Lancashire, the municipal borough of Crosby, the urban districts of Formby and Litherland, and part of the Rural District of West Lancashire. It was placed in the metropolitan county of Merseyside. The borough consists of a coastal strip of land on the Irish Sea, and extends from Bootle in the south, to Southport in the north. In the south-east, it extends inland to Maghull. The district is bounded by Liverpool to the south, Knowsley to the south-east, and West Lancashire to the east.

It is named after the village and parish of Sefton, near Maghull. When the borough was created in the Local Government Act 1972 a name was sought which would not unduly identify the borough with any of its constituent parts, particularly the former county boroughs of Bootle and Southport. The locality had strong links with both the Earl of Sefton and the Earl of Derby, resident of Knowsley Hall, and given the fact that the immediately adjacent borough was subsequently named Knowsley it seems equally likely that the choice of name was derived from the names of the local nobility. A Sefton Rural District covering some of the villages in the district had existed from 1894 to 1932.

Politics

The existence of Sefton has been an ongoing local controversy, especially in Southport, whose MPs and local councillors of which have campaigned for separation from Bootle to the south of the borough, and possibly inclusion as a district in the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.^[1] The council has been under no overall control since the Conservative Party lost its majority in the 1980s and is run as an all-party coalition of the Liberal Democrats, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, It consists of sixty-six councillors, three for each of the borough's twenty-two wards which are as listed:

Ainsdale · Birkdale · Blundellsands · Cambridge · Church · Derby · Dukes · Ford · Harington · Kew · Linacre · Litherland · Manor · Meols · Molyneux · Netherton and Orrell · Norwood · Park · Ravenmeols · St. Oswald · Sudell · Victoria

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Sefton at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added[1]	Agriculture[2]	Industry[3]	Services[4]
1995	2,079	20	496	1,563
2000	2,500	8	468	2,024
2003	2,994	10	418	2,566

^ includes hunting and forestry

^ includes energy and construction

^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Towns and villages in Sefton

• Ainsdale, Aintree
• Birkdale, Blowick, Blundellsands, Bootle
• Churchtown, Crosby, Crossens
• Ford, Formby
• Hightown, Hillside
• Ince Blundell
• Kennessee Green
• Litherland, Little Altcar, Little Crosby, Lunt, Lydiate
• Maghull, Marshside, Melling
• Netherton
• Orrell
• Seaforth, Sefton, Southport
• Thornton
• Waterloo, Woodvale

Parliamentary constituencies

See also: List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

• Southport
• Sefton Central
• Bootle

Sister Cities

• Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
• Gdańsk, Poland (since 1993)^[2]
• Mons, Belgium
• Waterloo, Sierra Leone

See also

• Sefton Short Film Festival - Annual North Liverpool Short Film Festival
• Sefton Coast - An SSSI covering much of the borough's coastline
• St Helen's Church, Sefton
• Southport Flower Show - The UK's largest independent flower show

References

1. ^ Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of Sefton, Local Government Commission for England, November 1997
2. ^ "Gdańsk Official Website: 'Miasta partnerskie'" (in Polish & English). © 2009 Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku. http://www.gdansk.pl/samorzad,62,733.html. Retrieved 2009-07-11. 

External links

• Sefton Council
• Vision of Britain