Perhaps the councillors are fishing for a title so they can impress the neighbours and feel more important than the peasants. This from the home of Chartism (British democracy). Still, a city that it names it's one main station after a London-based Queen and the second station after a square in London, the town-hall square after a Queen's husband, will never have the self-confidence to avoid brown-nosing when aristocrats turn up, to have their boots licked.