Axbridge
Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, in the Sedgemoor area on the River Axe, near the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. The town's population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. The community council (which is a parish council) has responsibility for regional concerns. The town council evaluates neighborhood planning applications as well as works with the neighborhood cops, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch teams on matters of crime, safety and security as well as website traffic. The community council likewise launches projects for the repair and maintenance of church centers, and seeks advice from the area council on the maintenance, repair service and also renovation of highways, drain, footpaths, public transportation as well as street cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees as well as listed structures) and also ecological issues are additionally the duty of the council. Each year participants of the town council elect a mayor for the town. The town drops within the non-metropolitan area of Sedgemoor, which was based on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It had actually belonged to Axbridge Rural Area from 1894 to 1974, which was responsible for neighborhood preparation and also building control, neighborhood roads, council real estate, environmental wellness, markets and fairs, refuse collection as well as recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, recreation solutions, parks as well as tourist. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest and also most costly local services such as education, social solutions, collections, highways, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal as well as calculated preparation. The town remains in Axevale electoral ward. Axbridge is one of the most heavily populated area however the ward stretches south to Chapel Allerton. The total ward population as taken at the 2011 census is 4,261. It is likewise part of the Wells region constituency represented in the House of Commons. It elects one MP by the first-past-the-post system of political election. It is likewise part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament, which chooses 6 MEPs using the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.
