Soon-to-be axed Durham City Council is withdrawing its membership of the LGA in a row over local government reorganisation. Deputy council leader, Carol Woods, said the city council would be spending the £13,500 annual subscription on local improvements, because the LGA did not support it enough during the campaign for a Durham unitary. Durham City Council was one of the district councils fighting against single-tier authorities, and would be scrapped in April 2009, when the new Durham unitary council started. ‘The LGA is an association of councils and is supposed to support all of us equally, both district and county,' said Cllr Woods. ‘During the reorganisation we felt that it did not fairly support district councils and eroded the democratic mandate of the people of Durham, so for that reason, we will be spending the subscription for the benefit of Durham residents.' An LGA spokesman said it had not yet received any formal notification from the council about its intention to quit, and it needed to give at least 12 months' notice. ‘No doubt the council will be letting us have formal notice in due course,' said the spokesman.