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Redcliffe-Maud Report

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The commission was nearly unanimous, with some reservations as to the exact geographic details. One member of the commission, Derek Senior, dissented entirely from the proposals, and put forward his own in a memorandum of dissent (Cmnd. 4040-I), which was slightly larger than the report itself. He
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produce a 'yes' vote (in the event the first region voted 'no' overwhelmingly, and the other referendums were abandoned). The regional boundaries proposed were very similar to the three northern Redcliffe-Maud provinces. Associated with this reform would have been a move to wholly unitary local
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did not commit himself but instead held a series of regional conferences to ascertain party grassroots opinion. Reports suggested these conferences were overwhelmingly hostile and the Conservative Party conference in 1969 passed a highly critical motion, while suggesting that some reform of local
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The Rural District Councils Association was immediately opposed to the proposals which would see their members subsumed in much larger authorities. They started a national campaign with the slogan "Don't Vote for R.E. Mote" (with Mr R.E. Mote depicted as an insensitive bureaucrat), distributing
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4276) in February 1970, broadly accepting the recommendations of the report. The Government had however added two new metropolitan areas: West Yorkshire (with the five Bradford/Leeds/Halifax/Huddersfield/Mid-Yorkshire unitaries as districts), and South Hampshire based on the Southampton and
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would have preferred a two-tier system, with 35 city-regions of varying size, along with 148 districts. These were to be further grouped into five provinces. At a lower level, there would be 'common councils', roughly equivalent to
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government was supported. Walker decided that a future Conservative government could not implement Redcliffe-Maud, but refused to disown the report completely.
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In arriving at their recommendations, the commissioners were guided by a number of principles which they had themselves devised. These included:
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or 'Selnec'; and West Midlands), which were to be sub-divided into lower tier metropolitan districts. These new authorities, along with
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The situation of wholly two-tier government did not last. The county councils for the metropolitan counties were abolished in 1986 by
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Town and country are interdependent, therefore the separate administration of urban areas and their rural hinterlands should cease.
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councils, which would also cover communities within large towns; special arrangements were to be made for the area surrounding
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Areas for the new authorities should be capable of being effectively and democratically administered by a single council.
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Wise, M J (December 1969). "Review: The Future of Local Government in England: The Redcliffe-Maud Report".
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It had originally been envisaged that parish councils should also be abolished, but the Secretary of the
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was forced to opt out of the campaign due to the similarity of "R.E. Mote" with the local Conservative
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Accordingly, the different categories of council would have the following powers and responsibilities:
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material to all their members. The slogan was used on postal franking from the affected authorities.
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Wherever possible, both types of services should be in the hands of a single unitary authority.
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councils, which had been created at the end of the 19th century, and replacing them with new
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The commission was appointed on 7 June 1966, with the following terms of reference:
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Government issued a white paper entitled "Reform of Local Government in England" (
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was outside the scope of the report, having been reorganised in 1965 under the
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In 2004 the Government put forward a proposal to introduce directly-elected
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There were to be 58 new unitary authorities and three metropolitan areas (
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In the actual 1974 re-organisation, the three metropolitan areas became
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Portsmouth unitaries, with the Isle of Wight being a separate district.
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Broadly the report recommended the abolition of all existing county,
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Immediately after the report was published, the Prime Minister,
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Norfolk, except a small area to the west, plus the district of
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The members of the commission were Redcliffe-Maud (chairman),
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plus bordering areas of Kirklees such as Batley and Dewsbury
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Wolverhampton (as current district, plus the middle part of
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Local government in England as proposed by the report
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1969 proposed English local government reorganisation
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government in the affected regions. In the area of
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The proposed provinces of the Redcliffe-Maud Report
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