Publisher's Synopsis
The purpose of this directory is to provide information for the authorities, solicitors and many others whose work brings them in contact with local authorities.;The book gives the names, postal and Document Exchange addresses, and telephone and fax numbers of the authorities, listing principal offices and other main offices.;Entries in the directory are designed to make it easy to find the department and the person with responsibility for a specific function.;Included for the first time are Electoral Registration Officers who themselves find this book, and the gazetteer of places in particular, invaluable for their work with rolling registration.;Full details of all the new authorities are given, together with cross-referencing to enable the user to identify which new authorities have taken over from those that have been disbanded.;The book also lists the parish councils, parish meetings and town councils within each authority's area, and includes a substantial gazetteer of nearly 20,000 places, showing the authority within which each falls.