Think-tank proposes axing hundreds of councils

By Martin Ford | 11 September 2020

England’s 349 councils should be replaced with 69 unitary authorities, a think-tank has argued.

In a report, Centre for Cities proposed that by side-stepping protracted negotiations, the new authorities could be in place by May 2022.

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