| Scarborough | |
| Type: | Borough and non-metropolitan district |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Coat of Arms |
| Mapsize: | frameless |
| Subdivision Type: | Sovereign state |
| Subdivision Name: | United Kingdom |
| Subdivision Type1: | Constituent country |
| Subdivision Name1: | England |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Subdivision Type3: | Ceremonial county |
| Subdivision Name3: | North Yorkshire |
| Seat Type: | Administrative HQ |
| Seat: | Scarborough (Town Hall) |
| Government Type: | Non-metropolitan district |
| Governing Body: | Scarborough Borough Council |
| Leader Title: | Leadership |
| Leader Name: | Leader and Cabinet |
| Leader Title2: | Leader |
| Leader Name2: | Steve Siddons (Labour) |
| Leader Title3: | Mayor |
| Leader Name3: | Hazel Lynskey |
| Leader Title4: | Chief Executive |
| Leader Name4: | Michael Greene |
| Leader Title5: | MPs |
| Leader Name5: | Robert Goodwill, Kevin Hollinrake |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 108,959 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicity |
| Population Blank1: | 99.0% White |
| Timezone: | Greenwich Mean Time |
| Utc Offset: | +0 |
| Timezone Dst: | British Summer Time |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +1 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postcode area |
| Postal Code: | YO (11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22) |
| Blank Name: | GSS code |
| Blank Info: | E07000168 |
| Blank1 Name: | NUTS 3 code |
| Blank1 Info: | UKE22 |
| Blank2 Name: | ONS code |
| Blank2 Info: | 36UG |
| Blank3 Name: | OS grid reference |
| Website: | www.scarborough.gov.uk |
| Coordinates: | 54.28°N -0.402°W |
The Borough of Scarborough [1] [2] was a non-metropolitan district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England. In addition to the town of Scarborough, it covered a large stretch of the coast of Yorkshire, including Whitby and Filey.[3] It bordered Redcar and Cleveland to the north, the Ryedale and Hambleton districts to the west and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the south.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a merger of the urban district of Filey and part of the Bridlington Rural District, from the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, along with the municipal borough of Scarborough, Scalby and Whitby urban districts, and Scarborough Rural District and Whitby Rural District, from the historic North Riding.
In 2007, the borough was threatened with extinction. In March of that year, North Yorkshire County Council was shortlisted by the Department for Communities and Local Government to become a unitary authority. If the bid had been successful then the Borough of Scarborough would — along with all other districts and boroughs in the present county of North Yorkshire — have been abolished then. The bid, however, was unsuccessful and the districts remained as they were previously constituted.
However, in July 2021 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced that in April 2023, the non-metropolitan county would be reorganised into a unitary authority. Scarborough Borough Council was abolished and its functions were transferred to a new single authority for the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire.[4] [5]
There were a total of 64 schools and colleges in the Scarborough area, as of 2012.
The Borough of Scarborough included many civil parishes and suburbs including: Brompton-by-Sawdon, Broxa-cum-Troutsdale, Cloughton, Commondale, Crossgates, Eastfield, Glaisdale, Houlsyke, Hunmanby, Hutton Buscel, Irton, Littlebeck, Muston, Newby and Scalby, Ravenscar, Ruston, Silpho, Snainton, Seamer, West Ayton, Wykeham and others.
Wards of Scarborough town were Castle, Central, Eastfield, Falsgrave Park, Newby, North Bay, Northstead, Ramshill, Stepney, Weaponness, and Woodlands. Areas without namesake wards included Westborough (centre), Barrowcliff and Newlands.
In 2016, the borough ranked second in Visit England's survey of overall holiday trips and holiday spend, topped only by London.[6]
Since 1882, it has been served by The Scarborough News, which is published every Thursday.
The Scarborough Borough receives a daily radio news services from these radio stations, BBC Radio York also covers Scarborough, BBC Radio Tees covering Whitby & Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire Coast which was previously known as Yorkshire Coast Radio and used to have studios in Scarborough.This is The Coast broadcasts from Scarborough on DAB and provides regular local news bulletins,[7]
Local news and television programmes in Scarborough is covered by BBC Yorkshire & ITV Yorkshire from Leeds and Whitby receives their local news and television programmes from BBC North East & Cumbria & ITV Tyne Tees in Newcastle.
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Scarborough.
The political composition of the council at all-up elections, ignoring intervening by-elections, from the 2003 election to the final election in 2019, is as follows:
| width=32 | width=90 | Overall control | width=87 align="center" | Conservative | width=87 align="center" | Labour | width=87 align="center" | Lib Dem | width=87 align="center" | UKIP | width=87 align="center" | Independent | width=87 align="center" | Green | |||||||
| 2019 | Labour/Independent | 16 | 13 | – | 1 | 14 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Conservative | 26 | 14 | – | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Conservative | 25 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Conservative | 26 | 4 | 6 | – | 14 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Conservative | 27 | 8 | 2 | – | 13 | – | ||||||||||||||