borough of Pendle

The name Pendle comes from "Penhill", combining the Cumbric "pen" meaning hill and the Saxon "hill", also meaning hill. The name was used for Pendle Hill (literally "hill hill hill"), a prominent outlier of the Pennines. The name was then also used for the ancient Forest of Pendle around the hill, and for Pendle Water, a river which rises on the hill and flows into the River Calder.{{cite journal |last1=Leech |first1=Geoffrey |editor1-last=Nakao |editor1-first=Y. |title=The unique heritage of place-names in North West England |journal=Text, Language and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of Keiko Ikegami |date=2007 |pages=42–61 |url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/doc_library/linguistics/leechg/leech_2006.pdf |access-date=26 June 2023 |publisher=Eihoosa |location=Tokyo}} The name also became associated with the Pendle witches, tried for witchcraft in 1612, as the accused were all from the area.{{cite book |editor1-last=Farrer |editor1-first=William |editor2-last=Brownbill |editor2-first=J. |title=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 |date=1911 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |pages=514–518 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp514-518 |access-date=26 June 2023 |chapter=Townships: Goldshaw Booth}}

The modern local government district of Pendle was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It covered the whole area of seven former districts and parts of another two, all of which were 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=26 June 2023}}

• Barnoldswick Urban District
• Barrowford Urban District
• Brierfield
• Burnley Rural District (part)
• Colne Municipal Borough
• Earby Urban District
• Nelson Municipal Borough
• Skipton Rural District (part)
• Trawden Urban District

The Barnoldswick, Earby and Skipton elements were in the West Riding of Yorkshire prior to 1974. The term West Craven is often used for the area transferred from Yorkshire to Lancashire in 1974. The new district was named Pendle after the hill, forest and river.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|access-date=31 May 2023}} The district was awarded borough status on 15 September 1976, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.{{cite book |title=Alterations of area and status May 1976 – November 1976 |date=1976 |publisher=Department of the Environment |location=London |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20221201175810mp_/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/17525/change-bulletin-1976.pdf |access-date=26 June 2023}}

{{Infobox legislature

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| leader1_type = Mayor

| leader1 = Mohammad Aslam

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Conservative

| election1 = 16 May 2024{{cite news |title=Labour and Lib Dems to run 'hung' Pendle Council |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-65623801 |access-date=26 June 2023 |work=BBC News |date=17 May 2023}}

| leader2_type = Leader

| leader2 = Asjad Mahmood

| party2 =
Independent

| election2 = 18 May 2023

| leader3_type = Chief Executive

| leader3 = Rose Rouse

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| election3 = 2021{{Cite web|url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/newsroom/news/article/661/a_new_chief_executive_for_pendle_council|title = A new Chief Executive for Pendle Council}}

| seats = 33 councillors

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: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Liberal Democrat (8)}}

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: {{Color box|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Conservative (13)

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| voting_system1 = First past the post

| last_election1 = 2 May 2024

| next_election1 = 7 May 2026

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Pendle Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Lancashire County Council.{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|access-date=31 May 2023}} The whole borough is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.{{cite web |title=Election maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=6 June 2023}}

In March 2013, Brian Cookson retired from his position as Executive Director for Regeneration, a post he had held for nine years, in parallel with that of President of British Cycling from 2007 onwards.{{cite news|url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/10293479.uk-cycling-chief-steps-pendle-council-role/ |title=UK cycling chief steps down from Pendle Council role |date=15 March 2013 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |accessdate=13 March 2021}} He subsequently became the President of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world governing body for sports cycling from 2013-2017.

In June 2017, a Conservative councilor, Rosemary Carroll,{{cite news |last1=Mills |first1=Jen |title=Conservative councillor 'posted joke comparing Asian people to dogs' |url=https://metro.co.uk/2017/06/29/conservative-councillor-posted-joke-comparing-asian-people-to-dogs-6745018/?ito=cbshare |accessdate=1 July 2019 |work=Metro UK |date=29 June 2017}} was suspended after sending a racist post on social media comparing Asians to dogs. This controversy expanded after the local elections in 2018, when the councilor was readmitted into the Conservative Party, allowing the Conservative party to gain a majority on the council. The Pendle Labour party accused the Pendle Conservative Party of condoning racism after the reinstatement. The Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler, called upon the Conservative Party Chairman, Brandon Lewis, to issue a statement saying that the councillor in question would not be part of the Conservative group on the council. This followed a statement from Lewis congratulating the Pendle Conservatives on winning a majority on the council.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/conservatives-pendle-councillor_uk_5aec782be4b0c4f193220367?|title = Tories Win Pendle Council After Reinstating Councillor Suspended over Racist Joke|date = 4 May 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/may/03/local-elections-council-england-2018-tories-labour-corbyn-may|title = Almost 4,000 people may have been denied vote by election ID pilots – as it happened|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 4 May 2018|last1 = Grierson|first1 = Jamie|last2 = Sparrow|first2 = Andrew|last3 = Rawlinson|first3 = Kevin|last4 = Sparrow|first4 = Andrew|last5 = Walker|first5 = Peter}}

In April 2024, all of Labour’s 11 borough councillors in Pendle, including the leader of the council, quit the party.{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Daniel |date=2024-04-02 |title=Twenty Labour councillors resign amid bullying claims and Gaza row in Pendle |url=https://labourlist.org/2024/04/labour-councillors-resign-pendle-quit-bullying-israel-gaza/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=LabourList |language=en-GB}}{{cite news |last1=Goodlad |first1=Nat |title=Twenty councillors in Pendle resign from Labour after 'bullying' claim |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24223463.twenty-councillors-pendle-resign-labour-party/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=1 April 2024}}

The council has been under no overall control since the 2023 election. A coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrat formed to run the council after that election.{{cite news |title=Labour and Lib Dems to run 'hung' Pendle Council |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-65623801 |access-date=26 June 2023 |work=BBC News |date=17 May 2023}} Following the Labour group all leaving their party, the coalition became an independent and Liberal Democrat coalition in April 2024.{{cite news |last1=Macdonald |first1=Robbie |title=Pendle Council: Power sharing to continue after mass resignation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-68715748 |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=BBC News |date=2 April 2024}}

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=1 June 2023}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/councils/E07000122|title=Pendle|publisher=BBC News Online|access-date=4 June 2014}}

The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Pendle. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 2015 have been:{{cite web |title=Council minutes |url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/meetings |website=Pendle Borough Council |access-date=24 August 2022}}

Following the 2024 election, the composition of the council was:{{cite news |title=Local elections 2024: full mayoral and council results for England |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/may/02/local-elections-2024-full-council-results-for-england |access-date=21 May 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=4 May 2024}}

Ten of the independent councillors sit together as the 'Independent Group', which forms the council's administration with the Liberal Democrats. The other two independents do not form part of a group.{{cite web |title=Political composition |url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/info/20099/council_committees/435/political_composition |website=Pendle Borough Council |access-date=16 April 2024}} The next election is due in 2026.

The council meets at Nelson Town Hall on Market Street in the centre of Nelson, which had been completed in 1881 for the old Nelson Local Board, predecessor of the Nelson Borough Council created in 1890.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOG_rbvFeBUC&pg=PA181 |title= Lancashire: North: The Buildings of England |first1= Clare|last1= Hartwell|first2= Nikolaus |last2=Pevsner|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2009|isbn= 978-0300126679 |page=181}} It has its main administrative offices in a modern building at Number One Market Street, opposite the town hall.{{cite web |title=Contacting us |url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/info/20011/council_and_councillors/350/contacting_us |website=Pendle Borough Council |access-date=26 June 2023}}

{{see also|Pendle Borough Council elections}}

Since the last full review of boundaries took effect in 2021 the council has comprised 33 councillors representing 12 wards, with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, with roughly a third of the council being elected each time for a four-year term. Lancashire County Council elections are held in the fourth year of the cycle when there are no borough council elections.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|The Pendle (Electoral Changes) Order 2020|year=2020|number=215|access-date=26 June 2023}}

Following the 2023 election, the councillors were:{{cite web |title=Councillors by name |url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/councillors/name |website=Pendle Borough Council |access-date=26 June 2023}}

The Pendle constituency was represented in Parliament by the Conservative Member of Parliament, Andrew Stephenson, from 2010-2024.

From the 2024 General Election, the constituency no longer covers the same area as the borough and is now represented by two MPs, Jonathan Hinder the Labour member for Pendle and Clitheroe and Oliver David Ryan the MP for Burnley, whose constituency includes parts of Reedley and Brierfield, which are in Pendle.

The three main employers in the borough are Rolls-Royce plc, Silentnight and the Daisy Group.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In terms of television, the area is served by BBC North West and ITV Granada which broadcast from Salford. Television signals are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter and the local relay TV transmitter located in the Forest of Pendle.{{cite web |url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Pendle_Forest |title=Full Freeview on the Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) transmitter |date=May 2004 |publisher=UK Free TV |access-date= 17 April 2024}} A small part of the borough around Barnoldswick and Earby is served by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire broadcasting from Leeds. This area is served by a local transmitter in Skipton which is relayed from the Emley Moor TV transmitter.{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Skipton|title=Skipton (North Yorkshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=17 April 2024}}

Radio stations for the area are:

• BBC Radio Lancashire
• Heart North West
• Capital Manchester and Lancashire (formerly 2BR)
• Greatest Hits Radio Lancashire
• Smooth North West
• Pendle Community Radio, the borough's local community based station which broadcast from its studios in Nelson.

The area is served by the regional newspaper, Lancashire Telegraph. Other local newspapers include Pendle Express and The Nelson Leader.

The borough is entirely covered by civil parishes. The parish councils for Barnoldswick, Brierfield, Colne, Earby and Nelson take the style "town council".{{cite web |title=Parish and Town Councils |url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/info/20104/parish_and_town_councils/209/parish_and_town_councils |website=Pendle Borough Council |access-date=26 June 2023}}

File:Borough of Pendle parishes map.svg

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The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Pendle.

{{Incomplete list|date=May 2019}}

• Steven Burke: 3 August 2012.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-19119679 |title=Olympic gold medallist Steven Burke given civic honour |last= |first= |date=3 August 2012 |website=BBC News |publisher= |access-date=18 July 2021 |quote=}}{{cite news |url=https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/london-2012-olympics-gold-medal-hero-steven-burke-granted-freedom-pendle-2741145 |title=London 2012 Olympics gold medal hero Steven Burke granted Freedom of Pendle |last= |first= |date=6 August 2012 |website=Burnley Express |publisher= |access-date=18 July 2021 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/newsroom/news/article/51/congratulations_to_pendle_s_triple_olympic_cycling_champion |title=Congratulations to Pendle's triple Olympic cycling champion |last= |first= |date=24 August 2016 |website=Pendle Borough Council |publisher= |access-date=18 July 2021 |quote=}}

• The Queen's Lancashire Regiment: 2001.
• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 1 July 2006.

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