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Keep Local Government LOCAL. Stop plans for county scale unitary authorities.

Submitted by Richard Coe on Wednesday 25th December 2024

Published on Thursday 20th February 2025

Current status: Open

Open until: Wednesday 20th August 2025

Current Signatures: 35
(count is updated approximately hourly)

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Council ~ County ~ Create ~ devolution ~ government plans ~ Held ~ local ~ Money ~ Remote ~ Represent ~ Return ~ Streams ~ Whitehall

Petition Action

Keep Local Government LOCAL. Stop plans for county scale unitary authorities.

Petition Details

We oppose government plans to create large unitary authorities which we think will be remote from and out of touch with those they serve.

Additional Information

We think the "so called" devolution plans actually represent greater centralisation of local government.
The proposed devolution plans centralise current local government powers into larger authorities, in return for returning a small number of powers, responsibilities and income streams previously held by local government and taken by Whitehall in previous changes to local government. We think Whitehall should return that money and those powers to councils without imposing what we see as unwanted centralisation.


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