Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council
Type
Type	Unitary authority
Leadership
Mayor	Neil Bendelow, Labour since 23 May 2024[1]
Leader	Alec Brown, Labour since 25 May 2023
Managing Director	John Sampson since 2019[2]
Structure
Seats	59 councillors
Political groups	Administration (22)   Labour (22) Other parties (37)   Conservative (14)   Independent (13)   Liberal Democrat (10)
Joint committees	Tees Valley Combined Authority
Length of term	4 years
Elections
Last election	4 May 2023
Next election	6 May 2027
Meeting place
Civic Centre, Ridley Street, Redcar, TS10 1TD
Website
www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is the local authority for Redcar and Cleveland, a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Since 1996 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The council was created in 1974 as Langbaurgh Borough Council and was a lower-tier authority until 1996 when it was renamed and became a unitary authority, taking over county-level functions from the abolished Cleveland County Council.

Since 2016 the council has been a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, which has been led by the directly elected Tees Valley Mayor since 2017. The council has been under no overall control since 2013, being led by a minority Labour administration since 2023. It is based at the Civic Centre in Redcar.