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EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG tells councils not to use public funds to win unitary argument
WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG tells councils not to use public funds to win unitary argument

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2025

Senior Whitehall mandarins have reminded councils not to use public funds to persuade residents to back their favoured reorganisation proposal.

REORGANISATION

Three unitary plan dismissed as 'unworkable' by opponents

By William Eichler | 08 August 2025

Lower-tier council leaders in Suffolk have published local government reorganisation proposals fo...

REORGANISATION

Rutland leader survives no confidence vote amid reorganisation row

By Joe Lepper | 06 August 2025

The leader of Rutland CC has survived a no confidence vote amid concerns over the local authority...

REORGANISATION

Boston backs two unitary plan

By Joe Lepper | 04 August 2025

A third Lincolnshire council has called for the county to be split into two unitaries under reorg...

REORGANISATION

Brighton & Hove expansion 'absolutely outrageous'

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2025

An MP has described Brighton & Hove City Council’s proposal to expand to the east as ‘absolutely ...

COUNCIL STAFF

EXCLUSIVE: Director suspended by county amid reorganisation vacuum

By Dan Peters | 30 July 2025

A director remains out of the office on full pay almost three months on from being suspended, The...

REORGANISATION

Reform council asks officers to look at single Kent unitary

By Dan Peters | 29 July 2025

Kent CC’s Reform UK leader has asked officers to draw up a detailed options appraisal for a singl...

UNITARY

Brighton & Hove releases expansion plan

By Emily Twinch | 28 July 2025

Brighton & Hove City Council has released plans for consultation on a proposal to swallow up part...

REORGANISATION

This transformation is a time for pragmatism and vision

By Gill Kneller | 24 July 2025

It is a deliberate programme of sustained and ongoing cultural change that will make local govern...

REORGANISATION

Councils back three mainland unitaries

By Neil Merrick | 21 July 2025

Hampshire CC and East Hampshire DC have backed three unitary mainland councils, with the Isle of ...

REORGANISATION

EXCLUSIVE: Crawley ponders legal response to unitary dismissal

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2025

Crawley BC is considering its next steps, including a potential judicial review, after local gove...

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