SHAW'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY

New 2009/2010 edition available now!
   

INTRODUCTION
 

Shaw’s Local Government Directory is the leading day-to-day reference book to local authorities of all types and provides vital information for anyone whose work brings them into contact with local authorities.

Entries in the Directory are designed to make it easy to find the department and person with responsibility for a specific function within a local authority. This removes the confusion that often arises due to the varying of departmental names and grouping of responsibilities in different authorities.

Included are the names of principal officers responsible for 17 key functions.

Conveyancing fees, building control contacts, and the companies to whom water and drainage enquiries should be directed, are included. Further information, including full contact details for county courts, Land Registry offices and water/drainage companies, is also introduced.

A Table of Abolished Councils lists all of those authorities which are no longer in existence, and gives details of who their functions were taken over by, as well as the year they were abolished.

Also included are Electoral Registration Officers and their Scottish counterparts, who themselves find this book (and the gazetteer in particular) invaluable for their work with rolling registration.

The gazetteer alphabetically lists the names of parish, town and community councils, and the names of many other towns and villages throughout the United Kingdom, identifying the authority into which each falls. This section now lists over 20,000 places.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

All local authorities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Names and email addresses of principal officers
Addresses, telephone, fax and DX numbers of principal offices
Full details of the new unitary authorities formed in April 2009

Full contact details for local authority departments relevant to conveyancing searches
Details of the Solicitor to the Council

Names of water/drainage companies to whom water and drainage queries should be directed
Conveyancing fees and charges
County Court listings
Land Registry offices
Full contact details of water and drainage companies
Area offices
Details of abolished authorities and the new authorities that have taken over from them
An alphabetical gazetteer of parish, town and community councils, and the names of many other towns and villages throughout the United Kingdom, identifying the authority into which each falls – listing over 20,000 places!
Every entry updated
Comprehensive index
   

Shaw's Local Government Directory 2009/10

l ISBN 978 0 7219 1713 9   l Paperback    l 234 x 156mm 
l 400 pages  l £39.50, including postage in U.K.
 

"The strength of Shaw's' Local Government Directory is its simple scope and arrangement and competitive price. This, coupled with reliability and accuracy, make it a leader in the field for basic local government information in most general library reference situations."

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