Salford City Council is the local authority of the

City of Salford The City of Salford () is a metropolitan borough within Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its main settlement, Salford. The borough covers the towns of Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendlebury, as well as the villag ...

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, England. It is a metropolitan borough council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Salford. It is a constituent council of the

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. The directly elected mayor is

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and the civic mayor for 2021-2022 is John Mullen. The council is based at

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with additional offices in Eccles. Some services, including property, highways and infrastructure, planning and building control were provided by Urban Vision, a public-private partnership formed in 2005 between SCC,

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and

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. Services returned to the council after the contract with Urban Vision finished on 31 January 2020.

Political composition

Since 1973 political control of the council has been held by the Labour Party.

Wards & councillors

Each ward is represented by three councillors.

References

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