East Staffordshire is a

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with

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status in Staffordshire in

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. It has two main towns:

Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In 2011, it had a population of 72,299. The ...

and Uttoxeter. Villages in the area include

Abbots Bromley Abbots Bromley is a village and civil parish in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire and lies approximately east of Stafford, England. According to the University of Nottingham English Place-names project, the settlement name Abbots ...

, Stretton, Tutbury,

Barton-under-Needwood Barton-under-Needwood is a large village in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. Situated a mile from the A38, and located between Burton upon Trent and Lichfield. It had a population of 4,225 at the 2011 census. It is al ...

, Rolleston on Dove,

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, Kingstone, Marchington, Mayfield and The Heath. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the former

county borough County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s. An equivalent te ...

of Burton upon Trent with the Urban District of Uttoxeter, and the Rural Districts of Tutbury and Uttoxeter. It received borough status in 1992. Since 2011, East Staffordshire has formed part of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership along with neighbouring authorities

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1. ...

, Bromsgrove,

Cannock Chase Cannock Chase (), often referred to locally as The Chase, is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is managed by Forestry E ...

Lichfield Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west o ...

Redditch Redditch is a town, and local government district, in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately south of Birmingham. The district has a population of 85,000 as of 2019. In the 19th century, it became the international centre for the ...

Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blyth ...

, Tamworth and

Wyre Forest __NOTOC__ Wyre Forest is a large, semi-natural (partially unmanaged) woodland and forest measuring which straddles the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England. Knowles Mill, a former corn mill owned by the National Trust, lies wi ...

. In 2020, East Staffordshire also joined Stoke & Staffs Local Enterprise Partnership joining Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Stafford Borough Council, Tamworth Borough Council, Lichfield District Council, Cannock Chase District Council and South Staffordshire District Council.

Wards within East Staffordshire

There are 39 councillors representing 21 wards in East Staffordshire. Most wards have either one or two councillors, but a few have three. The number of councillors is loosely based on the population size in that area.

Political makeup

As of June 2021, East Staffordshire is controlled by the Conservative party. The Conservative party have 24 councillors, the Labour party have 11 councillors, the Liberal Democrats have one councillor and there are 3 Independent Councillors. As of 21 March 2022 the Leader of the council is Cllr George Allen. He is also both the second and consecutive Uttoxeter councillor to lead the council since formation in 1972. Since 22 May 2015 the Leader of the Opposition is Cllr Michael Fitzpatrick. There are three groups which each have their share of committee seats. The Conservative group, the Labour group and the Independent Alliance group made up of one Libdem and three Independents.

Transport

Main roads within the Borough include the A38 through

and the A50 near Uttoxeter. There are two railway stations in the Borough,

Burton-on-Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In 2011, it had a population of 72,299. Th ...

on the

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and Uttoxeter on the

Crewe to Derby Line Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston, ...

, There is also a station serving Tutbury, also on the

called Tutbury and Hatton. This is in the

South Derbyshire South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population of the local authority at the 2011 Census was 94,611. It contains a third of the National Forest, and the council offices are in Swadlincote. The district ...

district.

References

External links

East Staffordshire borough council website

Enjoy East Staffordshire

Flickr photos of East Staffordshire
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Wards within East Staffordshire

Political makeup

Transport

See also

References

External links