East Dunbartonshire Totally Explained

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East Dunbartonshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Dhùn Breatainn an Ear, ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto the North-west of the City of Glasgow. It contains many of the suburbs of Glasgow as well as containing many of the city's commuter towns and villages. East Dunbartonshire also shares a border with West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, and North Lanarkshire. The council area covers part of the former county of Stirlingshire as well as parts of the former counties of Dunbartonshire and Lanarkshire.
The council area was formed in 1996, as a result of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, from part of the former Bearsden and Milngavie and Strathkelvin districts of the wider Strathclyde region.
In a 2007 Reader's Digest poll, East Dunbartonshire was voted the best place in the UK to raise a family. (External Link

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Composition

As a result of the 2007 election, the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost control of East Dunbartonshire Council, with one of the primary grievances amongst the electorate being fortnightly Waste collection, after the introduction of Kerbside collections. It is currently controlled by a Labour/Conservative coalition due to no single party having overall control. The current leader of East Dunbartonshire Council is Labour's Councillor Rhondda Geekie and the current Provost is Labour Councillor Alex Hannah. The current deputy-Provost is the Conservative councillor, Billy Hendry.

	Party	Councillors
	Scottish National Party	8
	Labour	6
	Conservative	5
	Liberal Democrat	3
	East Dunbartonshire Independent Alliance	2

Towns and villages

Places of interest

Campsie Fells

West Highland Way

Forth and Clyde Canal

Antonine Wall

Mugdock Country Park

Tom Johnston House

Milngavie water treatment works

River Kelvin

Lillie Art Gallery

Auld Kirk Museum

Education

Secondary Schools

School	School roll	Opened	Area Served	notes
Bishopbriggs Academy		2006	Bishopbriggs and Auchinairn
Bearsden Academy	1200	1911	Northern Bearsden and Baljaffray
Boclair Academy	943		Southern Bearsden and Torrance
Douglas Academy	1063	1967	Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock
Kirkintilloch High School			Kirkintilloch and Twechar
Lenzie Academy	1414	1886	Lenzie, South Kirkintilloch and Auchinloch
St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch		1874	Kirkintilloch, Milngavie and Lenzie
Turnbull High School	838	1976	Bishopbriggs and Lennoxtown

Closed Schools

Bishopbriggs High School
Thomas Muir High School

Further Information

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