The Charlwood and Horley Act 1974 (1974 c.11) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that amended the Local Government Act 1972 to move the villages of Charlwood and Horley from West Sussex to Surrey. This is a list of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament during that bodys existence prior to the Act of Union of 1707. ... This is a list of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament during that bodys existence prior to the Act of Union of 1707. ... This is a list of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament during that bodys existence prior to the Act of Union of 1707. ... This is a list of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament during that bodys existence prior to the Act of Union of 1707. ... This is a list of Acts of Parliament of the Scottish Parliament. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland for the years up to its dissolution in 1800. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1707-1719. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1720-1739. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1740-1759. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1760-1779. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1780-1800. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1801-1819. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1820-1839. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1840-1859. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1860-1879. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1880-1899. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1900-1919. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1920-1939. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1940-1959. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1960-1979. ... This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1980-1999. ... This is an list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 2000 to the present. ... This is a list of Acts of the Scottish Parliament. ... This is a list of Acts passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland. ... This is a list of Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly passed by that body during its existence between 2000 and 2002 when it was suspended. ... The is a list of Orders in Council for Northern Ireland which are primary legislation for the province when the it is being directly ruled from London and also for those powers not devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... Statutory Instruments (SIs) are parts of United Kingdom law separate from Acts of Parliament which do not require full Parliamentary approval before becoming law. ... The is a list of Church of England Measures which are church legislation Church of England. ... In Westminster System parliaments, an Act of Parliament is a part of the law passed by the Parliament. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... Charlwood is a small village in southeastern Surrey, on the northwest perimeter of Gatwick Airport. ... See also: Horley, Oxfordshire Horley is a town in Surrey, UK, situated between Reigate, Redhill and Gatwick. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ...

The Local Government Bill provided for the transfer of Gatwick Airport and the parishes of Charlwood and Horley from Surrey to West Sussex. The transfer was opposed by Surrey County Council, Dorking and Horley Rural District Council and Charlwood and Horley Parish Councils.^[1] Arguments against the transfer included the loss of expertise built up by the Surrey local authorities on airport management and planning, loss of territories to school catchment areas and remote administration from Chichester. It was also suggested that the areas were likely to be administered as part of Crawley New Town, with which they had no linkage. On December 5, 1971 a demonstration by 1,500 residents disrupted traffic on the main London - Brighton road at the proposed boundary.^[2] Gatwick Airport (IATA Airport Code: LGW, ICAO Airport Code: EGKK) is Londons second airport and the second largest airport in the UK after Heathrow. ... Statistics Population: 25,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SU865045 Administration District: Chichester Shire county: West Sussex Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Sussex Historic county: Sussex Services Police force: Sussex Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: South East Coast Post... Crawley is a town and local government district in West Sussex, England. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

On January 27, 1972, Michael Heseltine, Under Secretary of State for the Environment, stated that the transfer of the airport would go ahead, but that the the question of whether the two villages would remain in Surrey was not finally decided.^[3] Surrey County Council's proposed amendments to keep Gatwick within the county were rejected by the House of Commons in July 1972, but the council deciding to take its case to the House of Lords.^[4] January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Michael Heseltine walks out of the cabinet meeting having resigned, January 9, 1986 Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British Conservative politician and businessman. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ...

On October 17, 1973, it was announced that the Government would be holding negotiations about the Surrey / West Sussex boundary.^[5] The Charlwood and Horley Bill was introduced to parliament on October 31, 1973 and passed all stages on the last day of the parliamentary session and received the royal assent on the February 8, 1974.^[6][7] October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... // The granting of Royal Assent is the formal method by which a constitutional monarch completes the legislative process of lawmaking by formally assenting to an Act of Parliament. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Form April 1, 1974 there was a realignment of civil parish boundaries, and the creation of a new parish: April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...

• Charlwood in Mole Valley district
• Horley in Reigate and Banstead district
• Salfords and Sidlow: created from parts of Charlwood and Horley parishes, and included in Reigate and Banstead

The portion included in West Sussex became part of the unparished area of Crawley district. Mole Valley is a local government district in Surrey, England. ... Reigate and Banstead is a local government district with borough status in east Surrey. ... In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...

References

1. ^ Surrey backed by local councils in fight to stop transfer of Gatwick, The Times, November 23, 1971
2. ^ Boundary protest disrupts traffic, The Times, December 6, 1971
3. ^ Last ditch attempt to save aldermen, The Times, January 28, 1972
4. ^ Surrey fights on, The Times, July 15, 1972
5. ^ Two villages to be put back in Surrey, The Times, October 18, 1973
6. ^ Bills on indecent dispalys among first brought in, The Times, November 1, 1973
7. ^ 83 bills are lost but three vital measures pass all stages today, The Times, February 8, 1974