Three councils in the south of Staffordshire have teamed up to put forward plans for three separate unitary authorities, in a ...

Councillors have come up with two proposals: to merge all seven existing councils in to one "super unitary", or to split the ...

Staffordshire county councillors from across the political divide have spoken out against national plans to reorganise the ...

Currently Surrey works under a two tier system, meaning we have one County Council and 11 boroughs and districts, such as ...

Worcestershire won’t have a functioning council in two years’ time without moving to a unitary system, a cabinet member has said.

Concern has been shared that the new unitary authorities planned to be created after existing councils are abolished will not ...

Just a third of Devon’s existing councillors could survive the biggest overhaul of local government in 50 years, creating mega-wards for those left that some feel only retired people could manage.

The leader of Surrey Heath Borough Council has written to the local government minister over Surrey County Council's merger ...

A CROSS-PARTY group of MPs is backing a proposal for five new unitary authorities in Greater Essex. If the Government’s plans for local government reorganisation go ahead, MPs from Labour, ...