Leicestershire County Council has asked the government to postpone the elections it is due to hold in May as part of plans for a major overhaul of local councils. The authority said delaying the ...

Kent County Council (KCC) has voted to ask the government to accept them onto the fast track devolution programme, which will see the scrapping of local councils, as well as Kent County Council ...

More than half of the county councils ... should happen in council areas. In 2021 the previous Conservative government delayed local elections in North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Somerset when ...

Allegheny County Council races tend to be sleepier affairs than other local contests: Council members work part-time, and most balance day jobs with their government responsibilities. But the 15 ...

Kent County Council (KCC) decided to seek the fast track to a directly elected mayor and the abolition of all 14 councils in Kent, which will be replaced by a small number of much larger unitary ...

More than half of English county council elections could be delayed this spring because of Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner’s devolution plans. Elections were expected to take place in all 21 ...

On April 1, 2023, the council was abolished, and its functions were passed to the Somerset County Council. On the same day, Somerset Council became a unitary authority.

A SOMERSET councillor has defected from the Conservative Party to become the county’s first Reform UK representative on Somerset County Council. Bente Height, who is the councillor for the ...

Of course, they want to take advantage of their current position at the scheduled county council elections in May but it seems likely that they will be postponed. Rory O’Brien, Reform UK’s Spelthorne ...

The Panorama team spent ten months following Somerset County Council staff, showcasing Somerset’s inspiring social workers, family carers, care providers, health colleagues and voluntary and ...

Bidding for a town council now could distract from the debate about where and what new unitary councils geographically should be created throughout the County and damage the prospect of Guildford ...

Somerset County Council commissioned a £50,000 study in March 2023 into new "sustainable transport options" (such as walking and cycling routes) which would link Taunton to the nearby villages of ...