{"id":43936,"date":"2025-09-02T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43936"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:44:49","slug":"localis-thinktank-local-government-reorganisation-could-result-in-the-loss-of-nine-in-10-councillors-threatening-local-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43936","title":{"rendered":"Localis Thinktank: Local government reorganisation could result in the loss of nine-in-10 councillors, threatening local democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an essay titled Reorganisation, local government and the future of English Devolution, Localis argues that the establishment of unitary authorities in two-tier areas covering half-a-million residents could see councillor numbers drop from roughly 12,000 to 1,200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>LocalGov <\/em>writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 authors\u2026 emeritus professors Colin Copus and Steve Leach, warn that local government reorganisation will burden remaining councillors with increased workloads and insufficient resources to help manage the strain. \u2026 also suggests that an increase in population sizes will likely have negative consequences for democratic criteria such as \u2018public trust in councillors\u2019, \u2018electoral turnout\u2019 and \u2018participative engagement\u2019 \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Reorganisation-could-wipe-out-90-of-councillors\/62598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/localis.org.uk\/publications\/reorganisation-local-government-future-english-devolution-ideas\/\">Localis essay<\/a> \u2018Reorganisation, local government and the future of English Devolution\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an essay titled Reorganisation, local government and the future of English Devolution, Localis argues that the establishment of unitary authorities in two-tier areas covering half-a-million residents could see councillor numbers drop from roughly 12,000 to 1,200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43980,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936\/revisions\/43980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}