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Proposed structural changes to local government in England were set out in the English devolution white paper published by the UK government on 16 December 2024. The white paper announced that where possible, there was a desire for existing two-tier area—where services are provided by both county councils and district councils—to be reorganised into a smaller number of unitary authorities ...
“Local government reorganisation is not without risk and is difficult to get right. The danger is that, without robust assessment of the optimal scale of new unitary councils, we will get sub ...
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 AM ... She said her members were "open to change" but "remain clear that local government reorganisation should be a matter for councils and local areas to decide".
In the white paper about devolution, the Labour government also wants local government reorganisation. That means getting rid of two-tier local government, scrapping district and borough councils ...
All of them hold whole-council elections on a four-year cycle that includes 2025. However, 7 county councils (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, and Hampshire) had their elections cancelled due to local government reorganisation. A total of 16 county councils applied for their elections to be cancelled.
The three local authorities involved agreed to the deal in March 2024, [11] awaiting the decision of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and consequent secondary legislation. [12] In May the decision was delayed until after the 2024 UK general election in July. [13]
The Conservatives accused the Labour Government of plans to “strip councils of their powers to make choices and to impose reorganisation from Westminster without local consent”.
A joint Norfolk and Suffolk mayoral combined authority was instead proposed in November 2024 alongside a reorganisation of the existing two-tier local government structures in to a smaller number of unitary authorities. [102] [103]