In Hampshire, the county council and all the district councils will be abolished, with new larger "unitary councils" - which combine all the services delivered by both bodies - coming into being in ...

Just one council may run services in a county in the west of England in a bid to simplify local government and cut costs.

Woking Borough Council, which declared effective bankruptcy in 2023, will receive a £500 million bailout to stabilise its finances before integration into West Surrey. Hence, West Surrey will inherit ...

Tewkesbury Borough Council belive a single unitary authority is the best option for local government reorganisation in ...

North Hertfordshire could be “saddled” with a “bankrupt” council that would be “destined to fail” if the four-model option ...

Gloucestershire County Council backs the formation of a single unitary authority for the whole county in England's local ...

The merging of Shire Hall with district authorities into one council has been chosen as the preferred option during a meeting in which ...

Welwyn Hatfield will formally back proposals to replace existing councils in Hertfordshire with FOUR unitary authorities – despite the majority ...

Labour-run Stevenage Borough Council has backed plans for the area to join North Herts and Welwyn Hatfield as part of a new Central ...

A Gloucestershire MP has backed council plans for a major shake-up of local government. Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown, MP for the North Cotswolds, has welcomed the idea of a single unitary authority for ...

The Labour Government is aiming to set up single, unitary authorities across England with an elected mayor in two-tier ...