Powers and Composition
The Greater Manchester County Council was a strategic authority running regional services such as public transport, health provision, planning and emergency services. It served to provided a strategic regional framework within which the differing plans of its ten metropolitan borough councils could be harmonised.
Bernard Clarke served as leader of the GMCC.
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