South Lanarkshire Council

South Lanarkshire Council
South Lanarkshire Council
Unitary Authority Council
	Coat of arms
	Council logo
Type
Type	Unitary authority
History
Founded	1 April 1996
Leadership
Provost	Margaret Cooper, ; Independent ; since 18 May 2022
Leader	Joe Fagan, ; Labour ; since 18 May 2022
Chief Executive	Paul Manning ; since 2023
Structure
Seats	64
Political groups	Administration (29) Labour (24) Liberal Democrats (3) Independent (2) Other parties (35) SNP (27) Conservative (7) Green (1)
Elections
Voting system	Single transferable vote
Last election	5 May 2022
Next election	6 May 2027
Meeting place
	Council Offices, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA
Website
	www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk

South Lanarkshire Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas) is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and an annual budget of almost £1bn. The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas, market towns such as Lanark, Strathaven and Carluke, the urban burghs of Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town. The area was formed in 1996 from the areas of Clydesdale,^[2] Hamilton and East Kilbride districts, and some outer areas of Glasgow district (Rutherglen/Fernhill, Cambuslang/Halfway and part of King's Park/Toryglen); all were previously within the Strathclyde region from 1975 but in historic Lanarkshire prior to that.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

^ "Chief Executive". South Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
^ Historical Timeline: 1975, The Lanark Website
^ "New Local Government areas". Hansard. 22 October 1973. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ Maver, Irene. "Modern Times: 1950s to The Present Day > Neighbourhoods". The Glasgow Story. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ "Scotland's Landscape: City of Glasgow". BBC. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
^ Dickie, Douglas (9 April 2017). "Rutherglen residents not interested in Glasgow return". Daily Record.
^ McLean, Marc (5 September 2018). "From a pawnbrokers to Parliament - Tommy McAvoy looks back on his career". Daily Record. Retrieved 1 January 2022.