Варвикский район: администрация, структура и планы развития

Local government district in Warwickshire, England
The neighbouring districts are Rugby, Stratford on Avon, Solihull and Coventry.

Warwick District Council provides district level services. County level services are provided by Warwickshire County Council. The whole district is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.

Since the last boundary changes in 2019 the council has comprised 44 councillors representing 17 wards with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years.

Council meetings are usually held at Leamington Spa Town Hall on The Parade, which had been built in 1884 for the old Leamington Borough Council. The council has its main offices at Riverside House on Milverton Hill in Leamington, close to the River Leam. That building was completed in 1984 as the headquarters of the Leamington Spa Building Society, and was subsequently bought by the council in the late 1990s. Plans are being considered to move the council's main offices nearer to the town centre of Leamington Spa; various schemes have been proposed since 2016, but none has yet to come to fruition.

On 27 June 2019 the elected members at the Full Council meeting declared a "climate emergency" in response to ongoing global climate change. The council aims to become carbon neutral by 2025, whilst trying to make the whole district carbon neutral by 2030. On 20 January 2020 it was announced that electric cars would be given free parking in council car parks. On 4 February of that year it was proposed by the council group leaders to increase council tax by around £1 a week on Band D properties to create £3 million per year. This would be ring fenced for environmental purposes. If this proposal was accepted by the other councillors then a district wide referendum would have been held on 7 May to decide if the public accept it. On 26 February the full council unanimously agreed the proposal, triggering the 7 May referendum, – which was put back to 6 May 2021, due to the 2020 COVID 19 pandemic. the referendum has not yet occurred and no date has been set.

Ethnic Group20012011Number%Number% White: British 111,043 88.19% 114,739 83.36% White: Irish 2,525 2.01% 2,146 1.56% White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller 41 0.03% White: Other 3,448 2.74% 5,789 4.21% White: Total 117,016 92.94% 122,715 89.15% Asian or Asian British: Indian 5,218 4.14% 6,745 4.90% Asian or Asian British: Pakistani 222 0.18% 480 0.35% Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi 22 0.02% 69 0.05% Asian or Asian British: Chinese 521 0.41% 1,155 0.84% Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 435 0.35% 1,496 1.09% Asian or Asian British: Total 6,418 5.10% 9,945 7.22% Black or Black British: Caribbean 360 0.29% 389 0.28% Black or Black British: African 168 0.13% 474 0.34% Black or Black British: Other Black 59 0.05% 110 0.08% Black or Black British: Total 587 0.47% 973 0.71% Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 506 0.40% 861 0.63% Mixed: White and Black African 93 0.07% 233 0.17% Mixed: White and Asian 503 0.40% 1,070 0.78% Mixed: Other Mixed 281 0.22% 639 0.46% Mixed: Total 1,383 1.10% 2,803 2.04% Other: Arab 231 0.17% Other: Any other ethnic group 981 0.71% Other: Total 504 0.40% 1,212 0.88% BAME: Total 8,892 7.06% 14,933 10.85% Total 125,908 100.00% 137,648 100.00%
Religion20012011Number%Number% Christian 89,763 71.28% 80,185 58.25% Buddhist 347 0.28% 521 0.38% Hindu 848 0.67% 1,633 1.19% Jewish 207 0.16% 268 0.19% Muslim 630 0.50% 1,299 0.94% Sikh 4,239 3.37% 5,373 3.90% Other religion 355 0.28% 531 0.39% No religion 20,494 16.27% 37,859 27.50% Religion not stated 9,051 7.19% 9,979 7.25% Total 125,934 100.00% 137,648 100.00%

The district has six railway stations – Warwick, Warwick Parkway, Leamington Spa, Kenilworth, Hatton and Lapworth. Regular bus services run between Warwick, Leamington and Kenilworth and onwards to Coventry, Stratford upon Avon and the University of Warwick. The Grand Union Canal flows through the district and the M40 motorway also passes through. Right on the edge of the district is Coventry Airport. National Health Service general healthcare is provided by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and mental health care by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. Local hospitals include Warwick Hospital, the Leamington Spa Hospital, St Michael's Hospital and the Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital (non NHS, part of the Nuffield Health group) Social services is pro On 13 July 2021 a coronavirus "mega lab" was opened in the town. Named after English chemist Rosalind Franklin. The site is expected to be capable of processing "hundreds of thousands of samples a day". The largest laboratory of its kind in the UK, and it is hoped it will create up to 1,500 jobs. It will also play a "key role in responding to new variants of the virus". Historic hospitals included St Michael's Leper Hospital, Warneford Hospital and Central Hospital. Social services and fostering are dealt with on a countywide basis by Warwickshire County Council.

MoD Kineton: 4 April 2013. On 26 November 2013 the freedom of the district was bestowed on the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers following a parade through Royal Leamington Spa.