The councils will then morph into several unitary authorities – probably four, but some people are proposing three.

Now that the Cleveland City Council has voted 6-0 to approve the city's proposed new urban growth boundary, the proposal will ...

There has been a warning that people living in Hampshire will be worse off as major plans to merge councils across the county won’t fix problems.

Civic leaders in Southampton have supported a joint submission over the planned major shake-up of councils. The government wants to abolish the two-tiered system of local government and replace it ...

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“These characteristics cannot be remedied by a council’s structure or scale. “As the physical boundary to the island remains, the opportunities to reduce fixed costs and make procurement efficiencies ...

Derby City Council and the area’s eight districts have said suggested ... Derbyshire CC has previously said it favours a county unitary approach, with no changes to Derby's boundaries, which could ...

Southampton City Council's Conservative group have called on the Labour council's transport chief to resign over the scheme. A petition launched on the council's website demanding the scheme be ...

Southampton City Council has had to pay out five figures in compensation since 2020 as a result of pedestrian accident claims lodged against the authority. Some 262 claims for pedestrian ...

Two UK cities with a longstanding rivalry could one day merge into one city ... Southampton, 30 miles apart on the south coast, are slowly moving towards one another, according to a census map.