ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL

'Essex County Council' is the county council that governs the county of Essex in England. The county council was formed in 1889, and sits at County Hall, in the centre of Chelmsford. Before 1938, it regularly met in London near Moorgate, which was easier to access than any place in the county. It currently has 75 elected councillors, though before the Essex London Boroughs were added to Greater London in 1965, and the unitary authorities of Southend and Thurrock created in 1998, the number of councillors reached over 100.
County Hall, which dates largely from the mid-1930s, and is decorated with fine artworks of that period, mostly the gift of the family who owned the textile firm, Courtaulds , was recently (2007) made a listed building.
Essex County Council is currently controlled by the Conservative Party.
The chairman of the county council 2006-08 is Gerard McEwen of Norton Mandeville near Ongar.

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