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Encyclopedia > Burnley (borough)
Borough of Burnley

Shown within Lancashire
Geography
Status: Borough
Region: North West England
Admin. County: Lancashire
Area:
- Total
Ranked 233rd
110.70 kmē
Admin. HQ: Burnley
ONS code: 30UD
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
Ranked 252nd
88,975
804 / kmē
Ethnicity: 91.8% White
7.2% S.Asian
Politics

Burnley Borough Council
http://www.burnley.gov.uk/
Leadership: Leader & Cabinet
Executive: Labour
MP: Peter Pike

Burnley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire in North West England. It is named for its main town, Burnley.


The borough's population is around 90,000--it hit almost 100,000 in the 1960s, but experienced a two-decade decline, before settling around 90,000.


Places in the borough of Burnley include:

The current borders date from April 1, 1974, when the former county borough of Burnley merged with Padiham urban district and part of Burnley Rural District.



Districts of England - North West England

Allerdale | Barrow_in_Furness | Blackburn with Darwen | Blackpool | Bolton | Burnley | Bury | Carlisle | Chester | Chorley | Congleton | Copeland | Crewe and Nantwich | Eden | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Fylde | Halton | Hyndburn | Knowsley | Lancaster | Liverpool | Macclesfield | Manchester | Oldham | Pendle | Preston | Ribble Valley | Rochdale | Rossendale | St Helens | Salford | Sefton | South Lakeland | South Ribble | Stockport | Tameside | Trafford | Vale Royal | Warrington | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral | Wyre

Administrative counties with multiple districts: Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside



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UCLan to open Burnley campus - UCLan (912 words)
The NWDA is supporting the development of an enterprise strategy in Burnley that will deliver a positive step change in enterprise culture; embed innovation and entrepreneurialism in new Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) provision as well as making it more responsive to local business needs.
Phase one of the project is expected to cost in excess of £70 million led by Burnley College and the University Of Central Lancashire, with other stakeholders including NWDA, Burnley Borough Council, Lancashire County Council, the Learning and Skills Council, HEFCE and Burnley Vision.
Burnley Borough Council has also made an important contribution of land it owns on Princess Way to the project.
The Borough of Burnley (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (1615 words)
(2) Elections of all councillors for all wards of the borough shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2002[6].
The areas of the new borough and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3).
Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Burnley Borough Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.
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