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City of Brighton & Hove

Geography
Status:	Unitary authority, City (2000)
Region:	South East England
Historic County:	Sussex
admin. county:	East Sussex
Area: - Total	Ranked 259th 87.54 km²
Admin. HQ:	Hove
ONS code:	00ML
Demographics
Population: - Total - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	94.3% White 1.8% S.Asian
Politics
Brighton and Hove City Council http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.27(2)(b)
Control:
MPs:	Celia Barlow (L) David Lepper (L)/(Co-op) Desmond Turner (L)

Brighton & Hove (or Brighton and Hove) is a unitary authority area and city on the south coast of England. It is England's most populous seaside city.
   It was formed as a unitary authority area on 1 April 1997 by the merger of the East Sussex districts of Brighton and Hove. It immediately applied for and was granted borough status, which was followed by an award of city status by letters patent in 2000, as the joint winner of a competition to mark the Millennium. Thus Brighton & Hove isn't part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, but it's still part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex.
   Brighton and Hove forms part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation, the 12th largest conurbation in the United Kingdom. Directly to the west is Shoreham-by-Sea, and a short distance to the east are Peacehaven and Newhaven. The city, district and urban areas of Brighton & Hove have the biggest populations in the South East England region.
   Brighton and Hove themselves were results of amalgamations:

Brighton was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1854, later becoming a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888; it covered the parish of Brighton and part of Preston
Hove became a local board of health in the late 19th century, originally covering the parish of Hove
in 1893 the parish of Aldrington was added to Hove local board
Hove became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1898
Hangleton, Preston Rural and West Blatchington added to Hove in 1928
Ovingdean, Patcham and Rottingdean added to Brighton in 1928
Portslade-by-Sea added to Hove in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 : both Brighton and Hove became non-metropolitan districts of East Sussex

The football team, Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., predates the unification of the two boroughs by several decades.
On 15 October 2004, Brighton & Hove was granted Fairtrade City status. It is sometimes referred to as the "Gay Capital" of the UK, with many gay-oriented and owned business and services existing to serve a diverse and lively community.

Council and Directorates

The leader of the council is Conservative, Brian Oxley. The current mayor of Brighton & Hove is Councillor Mrs Carol Theobald. The Chief Executive is Alan McCarthy. There are eight directorates in the council structure see here for details

Towns and districts

The city of Brighton & Hove comprises the following areas (not necessarily directly corresponding to administrative wards or parishes):

former borough of Brighton � Bevendean

   Black Rock, Brighton � Brighton

   Coldean � Hanover

   Hollingbury � Hollingdean

   Kemptown — built up around a self-contained development of 1823, Kemp Town � The Lanes

   Marina � Moulsecoomb

   New England Quarter - a large new mixed-use development � North Laine

   Ovingdean � Patcham

   Preston Park � Preston Village

   Rottingdean Village � Queen's Park

   Saltdean (West) � Stanmer

   Westdene � Whitehawk

   Withdean, East Sussex � Woodingdean

former borough of Hove � Aldrington

   Brunswick — developed in a similar manner to Kemp Town (see above) � Hangleton

   Hove � Knoll

   Mile Oak � Portslade by Sea

   Portslade Village � Tongdean

   St Anne's Well � West Blatchington

Census

The first census of Brighton was in 1801.
The resident population of Brighton & Hove at the 2001 census

was 247,817 persons, comprising 114,479 households: 48.4% male, 51.5% female.
In the same census, Brighton & Hove had the highest percentage of citizens indicating their religion as “Jedi” among all principal areas of England and Wales).(External Link

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Wording of the Letters Patent

The Letters Patent of 2000 that confers City status is worded thus:
� :"ELIZABETH the SECOND BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND & OF OUR REALMS & TERRITORIES QUEEN HEAD OF THE COMMON WEALTH DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.

:To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting. Whereas We for divers good causes and considerations Us thereunto moving are graciously pleased to confer on the Towns of Brighton and Hove the status of a city Now Therefore Know Ye that We of Our especial grace and favour and mere motion do by these Presents ordain declare and direct that the TOWNS OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE shall henceforth have the status of a CITY and shall have all such rank liberties privileges and immunities as are incident to a City. In witness whereof We have caused Our Letters to be made Patent Witness Ourself at Westminster the thirty first day of January in the forty ninth year of our reign. � :By Warrant under The Queens Sign Manual Phillips."

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Brighton and Hove at current basic prices published

(pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added	Agriculture	Industry	Services
1995	2,656	3	407	2,246
2000	3,101	3	378	2,721
2003	3,952	4	476	3,472

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