The chair of the County Councils' Network (CCN), Tim Oliver, has backed radical Government plans to abolish dozens of local authorities by 2027.
Writing for The MJ after the English Devolution White Paper officially fired the starting gun on local government reorganisation, Cllr Oliver conceded that ‘financial pressures' ‘structural weaknesses' and combined authorities had made the two-tier system ‘impossible to justify'.
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