Borough of Erewash

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as one of nine districts within Derbyshire. The new district covered the whole area of two former districts and part of a third, which were all abolished at the same time:{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|access-date=31 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Derbyshire: Diagram showing administrative boundaries, 1971 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241242025 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=23 July 2023}}

• Ilkeston Municipal Borough
• Long Eaton Urban District
• South East Derbyshire Rural District (part north of the River Derwent, rest went to South Derbyshire)

The new district was named after the River Erewash, which forms the district's eastern boundary.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|access-date=31 May 2023}} On 28 June 1974 the district was awarded borough status, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.{{cite news |title=Erewash gets its status as borough |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=23 July 2023 |work=Long Eaton Advertiser |date=5 July 1974 |page=1 |quote=...the new status... effective from June 28...}}

{{Infobox legislature

| name = Erewash Borough Council

| logo_pic = Erewash Borough Council logo.svg

| logo_res = 200px

| house_type = Non-metropolitan district

| leader1_type = Mayor

| leader1 = Kate Fennelly

| party1 =
Labour

| election1 = 16 May 2024{{cite web |title=New Mayor: Meet Cllr Kate Fennelly |url=https://www.erewash.gov.uk/latest-news-section/latest-news/1938-new-mayor-meet-cllr-kate-fennelly.html |website=Erewash Borough Council |access-date=17 May 2024 |date=17 May 2024}}

| leader2_type = Leader

| leader2 = James Dawson

| party2 =
Labour

| election2 = 25 May 2023{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 25 May 2023 |url=https://moderngov.erewash.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=283&MId=2061&Ver=4 |website=Erewash Borough Council | date=25 May 2023 |access-date=23 July 2023}}

| leader3_type = Chief Executive

| leader3 = Jeremy Jaroszek

| party3 =

| election3 =

| members = 47 councillors

| structure1 = Erewash_Borough_Council_2023.svg

| structure1_res = 250px

| political_groups1 =

;Administration (28)

: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Labour (28)}}

;Other parties (19)

: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Conservative (16)}}

: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Green Party of England and Wales}}|border=darkgray}} Green (1)}}

: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Liberal Democrats (1)}}

: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Independent politician}}|border=darkgray}} Independent (1)}}

| joint_committees =

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| last_election1 = 4 May 2023

| next_election1 = 6 May 2027

| session_room = Town Hall Ilkeston.jpg

| session_res =

| meeting_place = Town Hall, Wharncliffe Road, Ilkeston, DE7{{nbsp}}5RP
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File:Long Eaton Town Hall, wide view (10).JPG
Town Hall, Derby Road, Long Eaton, NG10{{nbsp}}1HU

| website = {{URL|www.erewash.gov.uk}}

| footnotes =

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Erewash Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Derbyshire County Council. Parts of the borough are also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|access-date=31 May 2023}}

The council has been under Labour majority control since the 2023 election.{{cite news |last1=Bisknell |first1=Eddie |title=Labour wins Erewash Borough Council after making significant gains |url=https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/labour-wins-erewash-borough-council-8418941 |access-date=24 July 2023 |work=Derbyshire Live |date=6 May 2023}}

The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows:{{cite web |title=Compositions calculator |url=https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/?page_id=3825 |website=The Elections Centre | date=4 March 2016 |access-date=20 August 2022}}{{cite news| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/councils/html/17ug.stm | title = Erewash | access-date = 2009-10-14 | work = BBC News Online}}

The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Erewash. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council and executive. The leaders since 1974 have been:{{cite web |title=Council minutes |url=https://moderngov.erewash.gov.uk/mgCalendarMonthView.aspx?GL=1&bcr=1 |website=Erewash Borough Council |access-date=20 August 2022}}

Following the 2023 election, the composition of the council was:{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2023/may/04/elections-2023-results-live-local-council-england#le-full-results|title=Local elections 2023: live council results for England|work=The Guardian}}{{cite web| title=Local election results 2023| url= https://www.erewash.gov.uk/elections-section/local-election-results-2023.html}}

The next election is due in 2027.

{{also|Erewash Borough Council elections}}

Since the last boundary changes in 2015, the council has comprised 47 councillors, elected from 19 wards, with each ward electing two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Erewash (Electoral Changes) Order 2015|year=2015|number=77|accessdate=21 August 2022}}

When the council was created, it inherited three sets of offices from the predecessor district councils. The South East Derbyshire council offices on St Mary's Gate in Derby were sold shortly after the new council's creation. There was some discussion about building a central headquarters for the council, with possibilities examined at Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Sandiacre, but it was decided in 1976 that the cost of a single new building or a large enough extension to existing buildings was prohibitive.{{cite news |title=New borough HQ at Ilkeston but not for some years |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=24 July 2023 |work=Long Eaton Advertiser |date=8 April 1976 |page=14}} Instead the council built more modest extensions to the buildings it had inherited from the old Ilkeston and Long Eaton councils, notably in 1981 to Ilkeston Town Hall,{{cite news |title=Chief is moving |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=24 July 2023 |work=Long Eaton Advertiser |date=29 October 1981 |page=32 |quote=Extensions and modifications have been completed at Ilkeston town hall...}} and in 1991 to The Hall in Long Eaton, renaming the enlarged building Long Eaton Town Hall.{{cite news |title=New town hall wins VIP praise |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=24 July 2023 |work=Long Eaton Advertiser |date=3 May 1991 |page=3}} The council continues to use both town halls for its offices and meetings.{{cite news |last1=Bisknell |first1=Eddie |title='Erewash Borough Council should close one of its two headquarters in Ilkeston and Long Eaton' |url=https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/erewash-borough-council-should-close-8564106 |access-date=23 July 2023 |work=Derbyshire Live |date=30 June 2023}}

{{also|List of civil parishes in Derbyshire}}

File:UK Erewash District 2024 Map.svg

The towns of Ilkeston and Long Eaton are both unparished areas.{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=24 July 2023}} The rest of the borough is divided into 13 civil parishes. None of the parish councils are styled as town councils.{{cite web |title=Parish Councils |url=https://www.erewash.gov.uk/the-council-section/parish-councils.html |website=Erewash Borough Council |access-date=24 July 2023}}

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• Breadsall
• Breaston
• Dale Abbey
• Draycott and Church Wilne
• Little Eaton
• Morley
• Ockbrook and Borrowash
• Risley
• Sandiacre
• Sawley
• Stanley and Stanley Common
• Stanton-by-Dale
• West Hallam

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The borough has fourteen state secondary schools and 41 primary schools. It is also home to the public (fee-paying) school of Trent College, with its junior/preparatory school, The Elms School.{{cite web |title=All schools and colleges in Erewash |url=https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/schools-by-type?step=default&table=schools&parliamentary=Erewash&geographic=parliamentary&For=primary&datasetfilter=final&for=secondary |website=GOV.UK |access-date=1 April 2022}}

Broomfield Hall of Derby College is located in Morley."[http://www.derbyjs.co.uk/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1%3A-derby-japanese-school&catid=12%3Acontacts&Itemid=77 ダービー日本人補習校 （Derby Japanese School）] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214225310/http://www.derbyjs.co.uk/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1%3A-derby-japanese-school&catid=12%3Acontacts&Itemid=77 |date=14 February 2015 }}."Derby Japanese School. Retrieved on 14 February 2015." c/o Derby College"

Derby Japanese School (ダービー日本人補習校 Dābī Nihonjin Hoshūkō), a Japanese weekend school, holds its classes in Broomfield Hall.

In terms of television, the area is served by BBC East Midlands and ITV Central broadcast from the Waltham TV transmitter.{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Waltham|title= Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=16 April 2024}}

Radio stations for the area are:

• BBC Radio Derby
• BBC Radio Nottingham
• Capital East Midlands
• Smooth East Midlands
• Greatest Hits Radio Midlands
• Erewash Sound, the borough's community based radio station which broadcast from its studios in Ilkeston.{{Cite web|url=https://www.erewashsound.com/home|title=Welcome to Erewash Sound!|website=Erewash Sound}}

The local newspapers that cover the area are:

• Ilkeston Advertiser{{cite web | url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-emids/ilkeston-advertiser/ | title=Ilkeston Advertiser | British Newspapers Online | date=2 October 2013}}
• Derbyshire Times
• Nottingham Post
• Nottingham Journal

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|crest = On a wreath Or Gules and Azure out of a mural crown Or masoned Gules charged with four annulets Sable and between two torches issuing Azure enflamed Proper a stag rampant Gules and gorged with lace Proper attired and unguled Gold.

|motto = Per Sapientiam Constantiamque Victoria (Triumph Through Wisdom And Endeavour){{cite web|url=http://civicheraldry.co.uk/east_midlands.html |title=East Midlands Region |publisher=Civic Heraldry of England |accessdate=5 March 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/armorial_bearings_67#outgoing-1725232 |publisher=WhatDoTheyKnow |accessdate=6 October 2024 |title=Armorial Bearings}}

|badge = A stag's head caboshed Gules attired Or in the mouth an astronomical sign of Mars Or and between the attires a rose Gules barbed Proper thereon another Argent barbed and seeded also Proper.

|notes=Granted 4 October 1983 by the College of Arms.}}

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Category:Non-metropolitan districts of Derbyshire

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