Redcar and Cleveland is aunitary authority area withborough status in theceremonial county ofNorth Yorkshire, England. Its council has been aunitary authority since 1996.
The borough was created in 1974 asLangbaurgh, and was one of four boroughs in thenon-metropolitan county ofCleveland. It was renamedLangbaurgh-on-Tees in 1988, and given its present name when Cleveland was abolished in 1996; the borough was made a unitary authority in the same year. Redcar and Cleveland is part of theTees Valleycombined authority, which also includes the boroughs ofDarlington,Middlesbrough,Hartlepool andStockton-on-Tees; the latter three were also formerly in Cleveland County.
Its main settlement is the town ofRedcar. Other notable towns and villages includeSouth Bank,Eston,Brotton,Guisborough,Greater Eston,Loftus,Saltburn-by-the-Sea andSkelton.
The district was created in 1974 as theborough of Langbaurgh, one of fourdistricts of the newnon-metropolitan county ofCleveland. It was formed from the Coatham,Eston Grange, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar and South Bank wards of theCounty Borough of Teesside, along withGuisborough,Loftus,Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea andSkelton and Brottonurban districts, from theNorth Riding of Yorkshire. The borough was named after the ancientLangbaurghwapentake ofYorkshire. On 1 January 1988 the borough was renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees.[5]
Cleveland County was abolished on 1 April 1996, with its districts becoming unitary authority areas. At this time Langbaurgh-on-Tees was renamed Redcar and Cleveland.[5] Upon becoming a unitary authority, Langbaurgh-on-Tees Borough Council was renamedRedcar and Cleveland Borough Council and acquired all the full rights and duties as a county, whilst retaining the same boundaries as before.
The borough had a population of 135,200 in 2011.[6]
This is a chart of trend of regional gross 'value added' of South Teesside at current basic prices[7] by theOffice for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
| Year | Regional Gross Value Added[1] | Agriculture[2] | Industry[3] | Services[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 2,428 | 9 | 926 | 1,493 |
| 2000 | 2,919 | 11 | 940 | 1,967 |
| 2003 | 3,167 | 10 | 970 | 2,187 |
| 2006 | 3,982 | 11 | 997 | 4,187 |
^ includes hunting and forestry
^ includes energy and construction
^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
The main industry within the greater district of the town of Redcar is the Chemical Industry located close toWilton village on the Chemical Industry Park known internationally as Wilton. The chemical companies are all members of theNortheast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC).
The Wilton chemical site is owned by Singaporean utility companySembcorp and companies operating there includeSABIC who have recently built the world's largest low-density polyethylene plant (LDPE) and still operate an ethylene cracker. Lotte Chemicals are expanding both PTA and PET production.Huntsman manufacture polyurethane intermediates and Ensus have built Europe's largest bioethanol facility. Biffa Polymers now operate a polymer recycling plant that handles up to 30% of the UKs plastic milk bottles. While in support of Sembcorp, who built the UK's first wood-fired power station (Wilton 10), UK Wood Recycling Limited have a significant facility on the site providing waste wood to fuel Wilton 10.[8]
TheTeesside Steelworks operated Europe's second largestblast furnace. The majority of the steelworks (including the Redcar blast furnace, Redcar and South Bank coke ovens and the BOS plant at Lackenby) closed in 2015, but theTeesside Beam Mill still operates, producing beams for the construction industry.[9]
Coast and Countrytook over[10] the ownership and management of homes from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council in July 2002.[11] In addition to providing core housing services the company has also invested inindependent living services, including the development of a new Telecare service in partnership with the Borough Council.
In 2018, Coast and Country merged with Yorkshire Coast Homes to form Beyond Housing Limited, aCommunity Benefit Society with 15,000 properties across Teesside and North Yorkshire.[12][13]
The council maintains a number ofLocal nature reserves. These are Guisborough Branch Walkway,Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park and Rosecroft Wood, Loftus Wood, Whitecliff Wood, Clarksons Wood, Errington Wood andEston Moor.[14]
There are fivecivil parishes in the borough. The parish councils for Guisborough and Loftus have declared their parishes to be towns, allowing them to take the style "town council". The north-west of the borough, corresponding to the parts that were in theCounty Borough of Teesside between 1968 and 1974 (includingRedcar andEston and adjoining areas), is anunparished area.[15][16] The parishes are:[17]
As of 2024, the borough has 24wards represented by 59 councillors. These are named:Belmont,Brotton,Coatham,Dormanstown,Eston,Grangetown,Guisborough,Hutton,Kirkleatham,Lockwood,Loftus, Longbeck, Newcomen,Normanby,Ormesby,Saltburn, Skelton East, Skelton West,South Bank, St Germain's,Teesville, West Dyke, Wheatlands, and Zetland.[18]
Redcar and Cleveland istwinned with:
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