Subjects:

Local Government Law, Reference

The purpose of this Directory is to provide vital information for the authorities, solicitors and commercial organisations whose work brings them into contact with local authorities.

As usual, this edition will feature the details of the Chief Officers responsible for certain functions within each authority (i.e. finance, legal services, etc.) including the newly added function of ‘procurement’.Additionally, for the first time, individual e-mail addresses for each Chief Officer have been introduced. The book also gives the names, postal and Document Exchange addresses, and telephone and fax numbers of the authorities, listing principal offices and other main offices.

Entries in the Directory are designed to make it easy to find the department and person with responsibility for a specific function. This removes the confusion that often arises due to the varying of departmental names and groupings of responsibilities in different authorities. Included are Electoral Registration Officers and Scottish Assessors who themselves find this book, and the gazetteer of places in particular, invaluable for their work with rolling registration.

Full details of all the new authorities are given, together with cross-referencing to enable the user to identify which new authorities have taken over from those that have been disbanded. The book also lists the parish councils, parish meetings and town councils within each authority’s area, and includes a substantial gazetteer of nearly 20,000 places, showing the authority within which each falls.