Here, accountability is direct and unambiguous. With no party machinery to answer to, each councillor’s sole imperative is ...

Kent's two largest authorities have encouraged the county's almost two million residents to have their say on planned reforms ...

Currently Hertfordshire operates a ‘two-tier’ local government structure – with 10 district and borough councils and one ...

Oxfordshire's councils are voting through rival plans for local government reorganisation. The government aims to make a decision by next summer, with elections to the new council, or possibly ...

The deadline has passed for councils to submit their plans for a shake-up of local government, but in some areas the picture is clearer than other. It follows a government drive to simplify council ...

All district and county councils in Devon are being abolished as part of the biggest shake-up of local government across the country for 50 years. Instead of splitting services like recycling, housing ...

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Lancashire's councils are voting on plans for local government reorganisation. Currently Lancashire has two separate systems of local government, with a county council and12 district councils, as well ...