West Glamorgan County Council


West Glamorgan County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of West Glamorgan in south-west Wales, from its creation in 1974 to its abolition in 1996. It came into its powers on 1 April 1974. The county council was initially based at the Guildhall in Swansea but moved to County Hall in Swansea in 1982. On 1 April 1996, under the Local Government Act 1994, West Glamorgan County Council was broken up and replaced with the following authorities: Swansea and Neath Port Talbot.