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Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Coat of arms or logo
Coat of arms
Logo
Corporate logo
Type
Type
History
Founded1 April 1974
Leadership
Helen Bowden,
Labour[1]
since 26 May 2026[2][3]
Eleanor Wills,
Labour
since 24 October 2024
Emma Alexander
since November 2025[4]
Structure
Seats57 councillors
Graph of the party split among 57 seats.
Political groups
Administration (25)
    Labour (25)
Other parties (32)
    Reform (19)
    Conservative (5)
    Independent (8)
Joint committees
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
Bee Network Committee
Length of term
4 years
Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
7 May 2026
Next election
6 May 2027
Meeting place
Tameside One, Market Square, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Website
www.tameside.gov.uk

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Tameside Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the borough. The council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority since 2011.

The council has been under no overall control since the 2026 election, having previously been under Labour majority control since 1979.[5] It is based at Tameside One in Ashton-under-Lyne.

History

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The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside and its council were created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as one of ten metropolitan districts within the new metropolitan county of Greater Manchester. The first election was held in 1973. For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's nine outgoing authorities, being the borough councils of Ashton-under-Lyne, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge, and the urban district councils of Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden and Longdendale. The new metropolitan district and its council formally came into being on 1 April 1974, at which point the old districts and their councils were abolished.[6]

The metropolitan district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.[7]

From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater Manchester's ten borough councils, including Tameside, with some services provided through joint committees.[8]

Since 2011 the council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which has been led by the directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. The combined authority provides strategic leadership and co-ordination for certain functions across Greater Manchester, notably regarding transport and town planning, but Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council continues to be responsible for most local government functions.[9][10]

The council was documented in the 2014 BBC Television series Call the Council, which showed its workers carrying out their duties.[11]

Tameside duty of inquiry

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A legal principle known as the Tameside duty of inquiry derives its name from the 1976 judgement by the House of Lords in the case of Secretary of State for Education and Science v Tameside MBC.[12][13] It is "commonly described as a duty to make sufficient or due inquiry".[12][14]

...the duty requires the decision-maker to have "(asked) himself the right question and take reasonable steps to acquaint himself with the relevant information to enable him to answer it correctly"[12] - Lord Diplock

Governance

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The council provides metropolitan borough services. Some strategic functions in the area are provided by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; the leader of Tameside Council sits on the combined authority as Tameside's representative.[15] There is one civil parish in the borough at Mossley, which forms an additional tier of local government for that area; the rest of the borough is unparished.[16]

Political control

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The council has been under Labour majority control since 1979.

Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms took effect has been as follows:[17][18]

Party in controlYears
Labour1974–1976
Conservative1976–1979
Labour1979–present

Leadership

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The council splits the functions usually exercised by a mayor into two roles: a 'civic mayor' who acts as a ceremonial figurehead and represents the council at civic functions, and a 'chair of council business' who presides at council meetings.[19] Political leadership is provided by the leader of the council, now also called the 'executive leader'. The leaders since 1974 have been:

CouncillorPartyFromTo
Percy Travis[20][21]Labour1 Apr 1974May 1976
Colin Grantham[22][23]ConservativeMay 1976May 1979
George Newton[24][25]LabourMay 1979May 1980
Roy Oldham[25][26][27]LabourMay 198025 May 2010
Kieran Quinn[26][28][29]Labour25 May 201025 Dec 2017
Brenda Warrington[30][31]Labour31 Jan 201816 May 2022
Ged Cooney[32][33]Labour24 May 202210 Oct 2024
Eleanor Wills[34]Labour24 Oct 2024incumbent

Composition

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Following the 2026 election, the composition of the council was:[35]

Party Councillors
Labour25
Reform19
Conservative5
Independent8
Total 57

Four of the independent councillors sit together as the "Independent Group". The next election is due in May 2027.[36]

Elections

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Since the last boundary changes in 2023, the council has comprised 57 councillors representing 19 wards, with each ward electing three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council (one councillor for each ward) elected each time for a four-year term of office.[37]

Premises

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The council has its headquarters at Tameside One, which also includes a library and part of Tameside College. The building was completed in 2019.[38][39]

Former council offices at Ashton-under-Lyne, demolished to make way for current 'Tameside One' headquarters

The council's former offices, known as the Tameside Administrative Centre, had been built on the same site in 1981. That building was demolished in 2016 to make way for Tameside One.[40] The site is immediately behind Ashton Town Hall, one of the buildings inherited from the council's predecessors.

Dukinfield Town Hall, used for the council's annual meetings when mayors are appointed

The annual council meeting when new civic mayors are appointed is usually held at Dukinfield Town Hall.[41]

Coat of arms

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Coat of arms of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Crest
Out of a mural crown Gules a demi-lion guardant Or resting the sinister forepaw on an escutcheon of the arms, mantled Gules doubled Or.
Escutcheon
Per bend Or and Vert a bend barry wavy Argent and Azure between in chief a rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper and in base a Garb Or.
Supporters
On the dexter a lion Or gorged with a chain pendent therefrom a mullet pierced Sable and on the sinister a male griffin Gules armed, beaked, irradiated and gorged with a chain pendent therefrom a cogwheel Or.
Motto
'Industry And Integrity'[42]

References

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  1. ↑ "Councillor Helen Bowden". Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
  2. ↑ Carter, Gemma (27 May 2026). "Tameside unveils new Civic Mayor for 2026/27". Tameside Correspondent.
  3. ↑ "Tameside announces new Civic Mayor". Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. 28 May 2026. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
  4. ↑ Valentine, Charlie (16 July 2025). "Alexander appointed Tameside chief executive". Place North West. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
  5. ↑ Lythgoe, George (11 May 2026). "Reform UK brutally ends Labour's 47-YEAR hold of Tameside - now what?". Manchester Evening News.
  6. ↑ "Local Government Act 1972: Schedule 1", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1972 c. 70 (sch. 1), retrieved 30 May 2024
  7. ↑ "District Councils and Boroughs". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 28 March 1974. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  8. ↑ "Local Government Act 1985", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1985 c. 51, retrieved 5 April 2024
  9. ↑ "The Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2011/908, retrieved 30 May 2024
  10. ↑ "Understand how your council works". gov.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  11. ↑ Dorsett, Bethan. "Tameside Council workers return to TV with second series of the BBC's Call the Council". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  12. 1 2 3 "Judicial review—the Tameside duty | Legal Guidance". LexisNexis. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  13. ↑ "Secretary of State for Education and Science v. Tameside MBC [1976] UKHL 6". British and Irish Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
  14. ↑ "High Court hands down judgment in regulatory judicial review". Landmark Chambers. 18 February 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026. ILI applied for judicial review, contending GEMA's decision was in breach of procedural fairness and/or the Tameside duty of inquiry.
  15. ↑ "GMCA Members". Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  16. ↑ "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  17. ↑ "Compositions Calculator". The Elections Centre. University of Exeter. Retrieved 21 May 2025. (Put "Tameside" in search box to see specific results.)
  18. ↑ "Tameside". BBC News Online. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
  19. ↑ "Your Council at work". Tameside Council. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  20. ↑ Jackson, Norman (29 October 1973). "Men of the future". Manchester Evening News. p. 10. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  21. ↑ Brown, Gerald (12 May 1976). "11-plus bombshell for 3,000 pupils". Manchester Evening News. pp. 1, 24. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  22. ↑ Hornby, Derek (8 May 1976). "Maggie's war on waste". Daily Express. p. 1. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  23. ↑ Thomas, David (23 April 1979). "Turnabout may put £3m on rates". Manchester Evening News. p. 5. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  24. ↑ "Parties clash over new Mayor". Manchester Evening News. 9 May 1979. p. 11. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  25. 1 2 "Tory protest over Socialist mayor". Manchester Evening News. 21 May 1980. p. 13. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  26. 1 2 Carr, Sue (17 May 2010). "Council leader Roy Oldham ousted after 30 years". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  27. ↑ Pleasant, Steven (22 July 2010). "Roy Oldham obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  28. ↑ Rucki, Alexandra (26 December 2017). "Tameside council leader Kieran Quinn dies after suffering heart attack whilst delivering Christmas cards". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  29. ↑ Pleasant, Steven (5 February 2018). "Kieran Quinn obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  30. ↑ "Council minutes, 31 January 2018" (PDF). Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  31. ↑ "Tameside Council leader resigns after 'hostile takeover'". BBC News. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  32. ↑ "Council minutes, 24 May 2022" (PDF). Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  33. ↑ Gawne, Ewan; Fitzpatrick, Kevin (11 October 2024). "Council in turmoil as leader and deputy resign". BBC News. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  34. ↑ "Council minutes, 24 October 2024" (PDF). Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  35. ↑ "Tameside election result - Local Elections 2026". BBC News.
  36. ↑ "Tameside". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  37. ↑ "The Stockport (Electoral Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2022/1135, retrieved 3 June 2024
  38. ↑ "Council opens services in £48m Tameside One". Place North West. 5 March 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  39. ↑ "Where to find us". Tameside Council. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  40. ↑ McMahon, Teresa (24 May 2016). "Watch: Drone footage shows derelict council building being demolished in Tameside". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  41. ↑ "Council meeting, 21 May 2024". Tameside Council. 21 May 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  42. ↑ "Tameside". Heraldry of the World. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
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