Rochdale Borough Council

{{Short description|Local government body in England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox legislature | name = Rochdale Borough Council | coa_pic = Coat of arms of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.png | coa_caption = Coat of arms | coa_res = | coa_alt = Arms of Rochdale Borough Council | logo_pic = Rochdale Borough Council logo.svg | logo_caption = Corporate logo | logo_res = | logo_alt = | house_type = Metropolitan borough | foundation = 1 April 1974 | preceded_by = | new_session = | leader1_type = Mayor | leader1 = Janet Emsley | party1 = <br/>Labour | election1 = 14 May 2025<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 14 May 2025 |url=https://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=6906 |website=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref> | leader2_type = Leader | leader2 = Neil Emmott | party2 = <br/>Labour | election2 = 19 May 2021 | leader3_type = Chief Executive | leader3 = Julie Murphy (interim) | party3 = <!-- Non-political role --> | seats = 60 councillors<ref name="opencouncildata.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=http://opencouncildata.co.uk/council.php?c=277&y=0|title=Open Council Data UK - compositions councillors parties wards elections|website=opencouncildata.co.uk|access-date=2020-07-31}}</ref> | structure1 = Rochdale_Borough_Council_May_2026.svg | structure1_res = 280 | structure1_alt = Rochdale Borough Council composition | political_groups1 = ; Administration (31) : {{Color box|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Labour (31) ; Other parties (29) : {{Color box|{{party color|Reform UK}}|border=darkgrey}} Reform UK (15) : {{Color box|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Conservative (7) : {{Color box|{{party color|Workers Party of Britain}}|border=darkgray}} Workers Party (4) : {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} Liberal Democrat (3)}} | committees1 = | joint_committees = Greater Manchester Combined Authority<br />Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel | term_length = | voting_system1 = | last_election1 = 2 May 2024 | next_election1 = 7 May 2026 | session_room = Rochdale Municipal Offices - geograph.org.uk - 3920311.jpg | session_res = | session_alt = | meeting_place = Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale | website = {{Official URL}} | footnotes = | motto = }} '''Rochdale Borough Council''' is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the borough. The council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority since 2011.

The council has been under Labour majority control since 2011. It is based at Number One Riverside.

==History== {{further|County Borough of Rochdale}} The town of Rochdale had been governed by improvement commissioners from 1825.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rochdale Improvement Act 1825 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo4/6/128/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref> In 1856 the town was incorporated as a municipal borough, governed by a body formally called the 'mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Rochdale', generally known as the corporation, town council or borough council.<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 |date=1911 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |pages=187–201 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp187-201#h3-s3 |access-date=2 June 2024 |chapter=The parish of Rochdale}}</ref> When elected county councils were established in 1889, Rochdale was considered large enough for its existing council to provide county-level services, and so it was made a county borough, independent from the new Lancashire County Council, whilst remaining part of the geographical county of Lancashire.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rochdale Municipal Borough / County Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10136945 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref>

[[File:Rochdale Town Hall, 2010.jpg|thumb|left|Rochdale Town Hall: Completed 1871 for old borough council and served as modern council's headquarters until 2013. Still used by council for annual mayor-making ceremony.]] The larger Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale and its council were created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 as one of ten metropolitan districts within the new metropolitan county of Greater Manchester. The first election was held in 1973. For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's six outgoing authorities, being the borough councils of Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton and the urban district councils of Littleborough, Milnrow and Wardle. The new metropolitan district and its council formally came into being on 1 April 1974, at which point the old districts and their councils were abolished.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|schedule=1|access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref>

The metropolitan district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor, continuing Rochdale's series of mayors dating back to 1856.<ref>{{cite web |title=District Councils and Boroughs |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1974/mar/28/district-councils-and-boroughs#S5CV0871P0_19740328_CWA_145 |website=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) |access-date=30 May 2024 |date=28 March 1974}}</ref> The council styles itself Rochdale Borough Council rather than its full formal name of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=Find your local council |url=https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council/rochdale |website=gov.uk |access-date=31 May 2024}}</ref>

From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater Manchester's ten borough councils, including Rochdale, with some services provided through joint committees.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1985|year=1985|chapter=51|access-date=5 April 2024}}</ref>

Since 2011 the council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which has been led by the directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. The combined authority provides strategic leadership and co-ordination for certain functions across Greater Manchester, notably regarding transport and town planning, but Rochdale Council continues to be responsible for most local government functions.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011|year=2011|number=908|access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Understand how your council works |url=https://www.gov.uk/understand-how-your-council-works |website=gov.uk |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref>

==Governance== Rochdale Borough Council provides metropolitan borough services. Some strategic functions in the area are provided by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; the leader of Rochdale Council sits on the combined authority as Rochdale's representative.<ref>{{cite web |title=GMCA Members |url=https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/who-we-are/gmca-members/ |website=Greater Manchester Combined Authority |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref> There are no civil parishes in the borough.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref>

===Political control=== Rochdale has been under Labour majority control since 2011.

Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms took effect has been as follows:<ref name=compositions>{{cite web |title=Compositions Calculator |url=https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/composition_calc.html |access-date=21 May 2025 |website=The Elections Centre |publisher=University of Exeter}} (Put "Rochdale" in search box to see specific results.)</ref><ref name=lose>{{cite news| url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/council/html/3741.stm | title = Rochdale | access-date = 2010-05-07 | work = BBC News Online | date=2009-04-19}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" |- !colspan="2"|Party in control!!Years |- | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1974–1975 |- | {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 1975–1976 |- | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || 1976–1979 |- | {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 1979–1980 |- | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1980–1982 |- | {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 1982–1986 |- | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1986–1992 |- | {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 1992–1996 |- | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1996–2003 |- | {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 2003–2007 |- | {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || 2007–2010 |- | {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 2010–2011 |- | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 2011–present |}

===Leadership=== The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Rochdale. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 1974 have been:

{| class=wikitable ! Councillor !! colspan=2|Party !! From !! To |- | Derrick Walker<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Norman |title=Men of the future |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004985%2F19731029&page=10 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=29 October 1973 |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pollitt |first1=David |title=Spotlight on new Mayor and Mayoress |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003626%2F19810515&page=11 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Middleton Guardian |date=15 May 1981 |page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Three-month rent-reprieve likely |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003626%2F19760206&page=1 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Middleton Guardian |date=6 February 1976 |page=1}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|1 Apr 1974 || align=right|1976 |- | Edward Collins<ref>{{cite news |title=Next year's rate target is 4p plus |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003626%2F19761119&page=43 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Middleton Guardian |date=19 November 1976 |page=43}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The dozen winners |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000310%2F19800503&page=7 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Rochdale Observer |date=3 May 1980 |page=7}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|1976 || align=right|May 1980 |- | Stephen Moore<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-town clerk's son to be council leader |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000310%2F19800507&page=1 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Rochdale Observer |date=7 May 1980 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Labour loses council control... but party makes ground in Middleton |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003626%2F19820514&page=36 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Middleton Guardian |date=14 May 1982 |page=36}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1980 || align=right|May 1982 |- | Edward Collins<ref>{{cite news |title=Council leader resigns |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000310%2F19860108&page=1 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Rochdale Observer |date=8 January 1986 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tory at top |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003626%2F19820514&page=36 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Middleton Guardian |date=14 May 1982 |page=36}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1982 || align=right|Jan 1986 |- | Ron Lewis<ref>{{cite news |title=All set for rate-revolt battle plan |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000310%2F19860118&page=12 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Rochdale Observer |date=18 January 1986 |page=12}}</ref><ref name=MG16May1986/> || {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|Jan 1986 || align=right|May 1986 |- | Richard Farnell<ref name=MG16May1986>{{cite news |title=New brooms: Labour takes control |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003628%2F19860516&page=3 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Middleton Guardian |date=16 May 1986 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=People's choice |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000310%2F19920509&page=1 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Rochdale Observer |date=9 May 1992 |page=1}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1986 || align=right|May 1992 |- | Paul Rowen<ref>{{cite news |title=Drawing the line between a pact and a coalition |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000310%2F19920516&page=76 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Rochdale Observer |date=16 May 1992 |page=76}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Power and the glory as town is painted red |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004985%2F19960503&page=31 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=3 May 1996 |page=31}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|13 May 1992 || align=right|May 1996 |- | Jim Dobbin<ref>{{cite news |title=Labour's night to remember |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002441%2F19960509&page=12 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Heywood Advertiser |date=9 May 1996 |page=12}}</ref><ref name=MG22May1997/> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1996 || align=right|May 1997 |- | Peter Roberts<ref name=MG22May1997>{{cite news |title=Local pledge as Peter takes on a leading role |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003629%2F19970522&page=15 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Middleton Guardian |date=22 May 1997 |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Council leader to quit after six years |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/council-leader-to-quit-after-six-1147233 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=24 April 2005}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|May 1997 || align=right|2006 |- | Alan Taylor<ref name=Devine/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jack |first1=Patrick |title='Rochdale is a poorer place without him': Tributes paid to former council leader Alan Taylor following his death aged 75 |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/rochdale-poorer-place-without-him-16260579 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=11 May 2019}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|2006 || align=right|Jan 2010 |- | Irene Davidson<ref name=Devine>{{cite news |last1=Devine |first1=Peter |title=History as Irene takes the lead role |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/history-as-irene-takes-the-lead-role-937961 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=12 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rochdale Council leader resigns following defections |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11829447 |access-date=31 August 2022 |work=BBC News |date=24 November 2010}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|Jan 2010 || align=right|24 Nov 2010 |- | Colin Lambert<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 15 December 2010 |url=https://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=1387 |website=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lomas |first1=Kenny |title=End of the road: Colin Lambert unseated as Rochdale Council leader after crunch meeting |url=https://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/news/03062014-end-of-the-road-colin-lambert-unseated-as-rochdale-council-leader-after-crunch-meeting/ |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Mancunian Matters |date=3 June 2014}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|15 Dec 2010 || align=right|4 Jun 2014 |- | Richard Farnell<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 4 June 2014 |url=https://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=2986 |website=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Council leader resigns ahead of 'no confidence' vote |url=https://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2017-12-08/council-leader-resigns-ahead-of-no-confidence-vote/ |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=ITV News |date=8 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Damon |title=Richard Farnell, former two-time Labour leader of Rochdale council, has died |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/richard-farnell-former-two-time-21359177 |access-date=31 August 2022 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=20 August 2021}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|4 Jun 2014 || align=right|8 Dec 2017 |- | Allen Brett<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 13 December 2017 |url=https://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=4416 |website=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Damon |title=Councillor Allen Brett has been ousted as the leader of Rochdale council |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/councillor-allen-brett-been-ousted-20560548 |access-date=27 July 2025 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=9 May 2021}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|13 Dec 2017 || align=right|May 2021 |- | Neil Emmott<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 19 May 2021 |url=https://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=5683 |website=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref> || {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|19 May 2021 || align=right| |}

===Composition=== Following the 2026 election, the composition of the council was:

{| class="wikitable" ! colspan=2| Party ! Councillors |- | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=center|31 |- | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} || align=center|15 |- | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=center|7 |- | {{Party name with colour|Workers Party of Britain}} || align=center|4 |- | {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=center|3 |- ! colspan=2|Total ! align=center|60 |}

The next election is due in May 2027.

==Elections== {{also|Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council elections}} Since the last boundary changes in 2022, the council has comprised 60 councillors representing 20 wards, with each ward electing three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council (one councillor for each ward) elected each time for a four-year term of office.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Rochdale (Electoral Changes) Order 2021|year=2021|number=1230|access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref>

== Wards and councillors == Each ward of the council's 20 wards is represented by three councillors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Councillor contact information by Ward |url=https://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |website=democracy.rochdale.gov.uk |publisher=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=25 July 2023}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- !Ward !Councillor !colspan="2"|Party !Term of office |- |rowspan="3"| Bamford |Stephen Anstee | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2021–2027 |- |Angela Smith | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2018–2026 |- |Philip Beal | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Balderstone and Kirkholt |Jordan Tarrant-Short | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2025–2027{{efn|Elected in a by-election in May 2025}} |- |Ashley-Louise Gilbert | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Daniel Meredith | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Castleton |Aisling-Blaise Gallagher | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |Aasim Rashid | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Dave Jones | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |rowspan="3"| Central Rochdale |Farooq Ahmed | {{Party name with colour|Workers Party of Britain}} |2024–2028 |- |Waqar Khan | {{Party name with colour|Workers Party of Britain}} |2026-2030 |- |Sameena Zaheer | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |rowspan="3"| East Middleton |Georgina Jaques | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2026-2030 |- |Terry Smith | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Dylan James Williams | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Healey |Tricia Ayrton | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2022–2027 |- |Mark Stephens | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Shah Wazir | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Hopwood Hall |Stephen Potter | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Peter Hodgkinson | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Carol Wardle | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024-2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Kingsway |Shakil Ahmed | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2026-2030 |- |Daalat Ali | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |Rachel Massey | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |rowspan="3"| Littleborough Lakeside |Tom Besford | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |Victoria Howard | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Richard Jackson | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |rowspan="3"| Milkstone and Deeplish |Mohammed Shafiq | {{Party name with colour|Workers Party of Britain}} |2026-2030 |- |Minaam Ellahi | {{Party name with colour|Workers Party of Britain}} |2024–2028 |- |Aiza Rashid | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |rowspan="3"| Milnrow and Newhey |David Bamford | {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Anthony Gilbert | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Andy Kelly | {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Norden |Paul Eillison | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2026-2030 |- |Michael Holly | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Peter Winkler | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| North Heywood |Michael Howard | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Bev Place | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Paul O'Neill | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| North Middleton |Lee Wolf | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Elizabeth Atewologun | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Kath Bromfield | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Smallbridge and Firgrove |John Blundell | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |Mohammed Khizer | {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} |2026-2030 |- |Amna Mir | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023-2027 |- |rowspan="3"| South Middleton |Patricia Mary Dale | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |June West | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |Matthew Pilkington | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |rowspan="3"| Spotland and Falinge |Carl Faulkner | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Amber Nisa | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Faisal Rana | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |rowspan="3"| Wardle, Shore & West Littleborough |Philip Barrett | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Adam Branton | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |John Taylor | {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |rowspan="3"| West Heywood |Stuart Crawford | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Peter Joinson | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |- |Linda Robinson | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |rowspan="3"| West Middleton |Trevor Taylor | {{Party name with colour|Reform UK}} |2026-2030 |- |Neil Emmott | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2023–2027 |- |Susan Smith | {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |2024–2028 |}

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==Premises== The council is based at Number One Riverside on Smith Street in the centre of Rochdale. It was purpose-built for the council and opened in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://faulknerbrowns.com/featured-work/number-one-riverside |title=Number One Riverside |website=faulknerbrowns.com |publisher=FaulknerBrowns Architects |access-date=25 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rochdale.gov.uk/contact-us/number-one-riverside |title=Number One Riverside - council offices |website=rochdale.gov.uk |publisher=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=25 July 2023}}</ref> Prior to 2013 the council met and had some offices at Rochdale Town Hall, which had been completed in 1871 for the old borough council, with additional offices spread across numerous other buildings.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Town Hall|num=1084275|grade=I|access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref> The Town Hall is still used for certain ceremonial functions, including the annual council meeting when new mayors are appointed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual council meeting, 15 May 2024 |url=https://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=6653 |website=Rochdale Borough Council |access-date=2 June 2024}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Official website}}

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