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Central Regional Council. Education Dept
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The Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973 transferred the duties of county councils for education to regional councils in 1975. In 1996 these responsibilities were transferred to the unitary authorities
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Central Regional Council. Planning Dept
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Central Regional Council. Regional Estates Surveyor
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Strathclyde Regional Council
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Central Regional Council
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Central Regional Council. Social Work
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Social Work Departments were established under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 which brought together the functions of health, welfare and care of children. Social Work was a regional responsibility after local government re-organisation in 1975 and then transferred to the unitary authorities in 1996. The 1968 Act was a wholesale reform of the concept of providing welfare assistance and was a major factor in bringing about the two-tier system of local government in 1975
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Central Regional Council. Photographer
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Falkirk Council. Education Services
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In 1996 responsibility for education was transferred from regional councils to unitary authorities.
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Central Regional Council. Technical services
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Central Regional Council. Press/Public Relations Office
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Central Regional Council. Industrial Archaeology Survey
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Planning Department
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Union Canal Project
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Central Regional Council. Chief Executive's Office
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Falkirk District Council
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Falkirk District Council was set up under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. District councils in Scotland were established under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65). They were quite distinct from the district councils which had existed from 1930 to 1975. The Act established a two-tier system of local government with nine regional councils and 53 district councils. Three islands councils (Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles) performed the functions of district and regional councils. District councils were elected in 1974 and acted as shadow authorities until May 1975, when they assumed their full powers. Their main responsibilities were district courts (under the District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975, c.20), building control, burial and cremation, cleansing, community centres (shared with the region) conservation areas, countryside (some regional responsibility), development control, environmental health, housing, leisure and recreation, libraries, licensing, local planning, museums and art galleries (with the regional council), parks and tourism
Falkirk District comprised the former burghs of Falkirk, Grangemouth, Bo'ness and Denny & Dunipace, the former Eastern districts and part of the Central districts of Stirlingshire and a small part of the former West Lothian County. The regional authority for the area of Falkirk District Council was Central Regional Council. Falkirk District Council and Central Regional Council were abolished in 1996 and replaced by Falkirk Council (Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, c.39) which assumed most of their powers and functions. The Committees agreed in July 1974 were Policy & Resources Committee, Finance & Manpower Committee, Planning & Development Committee (including responsibility for planning, architectural service and building control), Housing Committee, Environmental Health Committee, Leisure & Recreation Committee and General Purposes Committee. Additionally there was provision for the Joint Staff Consultative Committee to meet separately with the two categories of Administrative, Professional Technical & Clerical or APT&C staff and with Craft & Manual staff; and for the Joint Liaison Committee to meet with other local authorities. The Finance & Manpower Committee was re-organised as the Finance Committee and the Manpower & Common Services Committee by 1976. These committees remained in place until April 1992. New committees were set up in April or May 1992: Performance, Policy & Resources Committee, Environmental Services Committee (with responsibility for environment and leisure & recreation), Personnel Services Committee, Women's & Equal Opportunities Committee, Housing Services Committee and Development Services Committee (with responsibility for planning, building control, property, roads and architectural services). In 1974, the District Council staff structure was organised into nine departments: Administrative & Legal Services Department (headed by the Chief Executive, along with a Senior Depute Director), Finance Department, Architectural Services Department, Planning Department, Housing Department, Environmental Health Department, Amenity & Recreation Department (all six of these headed by a Director); the Libraries, Museums & Art Galleries Department (headed by the District Chief Librarian) and the Direct Works department headed by the District Direct Works Manager. This departmental structure remained substantially in place until 1989 when the Amenity & Recreation Department and the Libraries & Museums Department were amalgamated into the Leisure & Recreation Department. |
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Central Regional Council. Tourism
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Forth Freeport Co Ltd
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Company set up during 1980s by consortium of Central Regional Council, Falkirk District Council and Forth Post Authority. Aim was to create a freeport in parts of Grangemouth
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Central Regional Council. Water & Drainage Department
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Odenwald Association
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Odenwald association was formed as a result of the twinning of Stirling County Council and Landkreis Erbach (Hessen) in 1969 which continued after local government re-organisation in 1976 as a twinning between Central Regional Council and Odenwaldkreis, and continued as a twin with Falkirk Council after re-organisation in 1996.
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Grangemouth Town Council
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Grangemouth became a Police Burgh in 1872 with a seal in 1888 and the Coat of Arms matriculated in 1930. Grangemouth Town Council was abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65). Its powers were transferred to Central Regional Council and Falkirk District Council. These in turn were replaced by the unitary authority Falkirk Council in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39).
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Stirling County Council
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Stirling County Council was set up in 1889 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 and abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973. Its powers were transferred to Central Regional Council and to Falkirk District Council and Stirling District Council. County councils were established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict., c. 50). County councils were made up of elected councillors and took over powers from the commissioners of supply, county road trusts, and local authorities set up under the Diseases of AnimalsÂ’ Acts. They also took over some administrative powers from the justices of the peace but not their licensing or judicial powers. The responsibilities of the commissioners of supply for police matters were transferred to standing joint committees made up of commissioners of supply and county councillors. Parochial boards who had been responsible for duties under the Public Health Acts had such powers transferred to district committees of county councils. The 1889 Act made it compulsory for county councils to appoint full time county medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors. Further reform of county councils came in the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. V, c. 25). The 1929 Act changed some of the functions of county councils and set up a system of district councils which had certain functions assigned to them by the county council. County councils were abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973 (c. 65). The powers of county councils were transferred to regional councils and district councils.
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