Local government in England as proposed by the report. The metropolitan areas are 22 (Merseyside), 23 (Selnec) and 25 (West Midlands). Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 Greater Manchester is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2 The West Midlands is a Metropolitan county in western central England with a population of 2591300

The Redcliffe-Maud Report (Cmnd. 4040) is the name generally given to the report published by the Royal Commission on Local Government in England 1966-1969 under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud. The term Royal Commission may also be used in the United Kingdom to describe the group of Lords Commissioners who may act in the stead of the The pattern of local government in England is complex with the distribution of functions varying according to the local arrangements England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland John Primatt Redcliffe Maud Baron Redcliffe-Maud ( February 3, 1906 – November 20, 1982) was a British Civil servant

The commission was given the task of looking at the then structure of local government in England and making recommendations for change. Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a State. It excluded Greater London, which had been re-organised in 1965. Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England.

The members of the Commission were Redcliffe-Maud (chair), J. E. Bolton (vice-chair), Derek Senior, Francis Hill, Victor Feather, A. Sir Francis Hill (1899-1980 was a leading historian of Lincoln and Lincolnshire, and the 3rd Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. Victor Grayson Hardie Feather Baron Feather (1908 &ndash 28 July 1976) was General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress in Great Britain from H. Marshall, P. Mursell, J. L. Longland, R. C. Wallis. T. Dan Smith and Dame Evelyn Sharp. Thomas Daniel Smith ( 11 May 1915 &ndash 27 July 1993) was a British Politician who was Leader of Newcastle upon Tyne Evelyn Genevieve "Sharpie" Sharp (1919 - 1944 was an American Aviatrix. ^[1]

The report

The proposed provinces of the Redcliffe-Maud Report

Broadly the report recommended the abolition of all the existing county, county borough, borough, urban district and rural district councils, which had been created at the end of the 19th century, and replacing them with new unitary authorities. A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland) to refer to a Borough or a City A borough is an Administrative division of various countries In principle the term borough designates a self-governing Township although in practice In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of Local government district that covered an Urbanised area Rural districts were a type of Local government area &ndash now superseded &ndash established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and See also Independent city A unitary authority is a type of Local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all Local government functions These new unitary authorities were largely based on major towns, which acted as regional employment, commercial, social and recreational centres and took into account local transport infrastructure and travel patterns.

There were to be 58 new unitary authorities and three metropolitan areas (Merseyside, South East Lancashire/North East Cheshire or 'Selnec' and West Midlands), which were to be sub-divided into lower tier metropolitan districts. See also Independent city A unitary authority is a type of Local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all Local government functions Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 Greater Manchester is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2 The West Midlands is a Metropolitan county in western central England with a population of 2591300 These new authorities, along with Greater London were to be grouped into eight provinces, each with its own provincial council. Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England.

Division of functions

In arriving at their recommendations, the commissioners were guided by a number of principles which they had themselves devised. These included:

• Town and country are interdependent, therefore the separate administration of urban areas and their rural hinterlands should cease.
• "Physical environment services" should be in the hands of a single authority. Examples of these services included planning and transport. In order to provide these wide area services, the authority should have boundaries that reflected geographical patterns of population and movement and provided a coherent area of administration.
• "Personal services" should likewise be administered by a single council. These included education, social services, health and housing. The optimum population range over which to provide these services was 250,000 to 1,000,000.
• Wherever possible, both types of services should be in the hands of a single unitary authority.
• Areas for the new authorities should be capable of being effectively and democratically administered by a single council.

Accordingly the different categories of council would have the following powers and responsibilities:

• Provincial councils: Drawing up of strategic development plans. They were to take over the functions of the existing Regional Economic Planning Councils.
• Unitary area councils: Both physical environment and personal services
• Metropolitan area councils: Planning, transport and general housing policy.
• Metropolitan district councils: Education and personal social services. ^[2]

Political reaction

The then Labour Party Government broadly accepted the recommendations of the report, and put out a White Paper (Reform of Local Government in England, Command 4276) in February 1970. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the This 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 Portsmouth unitaries, with the Isle of Wight being a separate district. ^[3]

The Conservative Party won the 1970 general election. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Opinion poll summary ORC (Opinion Research Council Conservative lead of 1%Harris (Express Newspapers Labour lead of 2%NOP The new Government was committed to a two-tier system, and in 1971 announced its intentions, which led to the 1974 re-organisation. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c 70 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in England and Wales Although the general plan of the Report was abandoned, many of the specific innovations were carried over, such as the plan to associate Slough with Berkshire, and Bournemouth with Dorset. Slough ( ˈslaʊ is a Borough and Unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. Berkshire (ˈbɑːkʃə or /ˈbɑːkʃɪə/ say Baak-shuh/-sheer sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a Home County in the South Bournemouth ( is a large coastal resort town in the Borough of Bournemouth in Dorset, England. Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast

Dissent

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 would have preferred a two-tier system, with 35 city-regions of varying size, along with 148 districts. At a lower level, there would be 'common councils', roughly equivalent to civil parish councils, which would also cover communities within large towns. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. These proposals effectively ignored traditional boundaries, to a much greater extent than the Report itself did.

Aftermath

In the actual 1974 re-organisation, the three metropolitan areas became metropolitan counties, though their area was greatly reduced. The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level Administrative division of England. A further three were added, covering the Leeds/Bradford area (West Yorkshire), the Sheffield/Rotherham area (South Yorkshire) and the Tyneside area (Tyne and Wear). Leeds ( is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England Bradford ( lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a Metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England Rotherham ( is a large town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Don, close to its confluence with the River Rother, between Divisions and environs South Yorkshire is divided into four local government districts they are the City of Sheffield, the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster Tyneside is a Conurbation in northern England, which is home to over 80% of the Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. The concept of authorities based around Bristol (Avon), and Teesside (Cleveland) was also retained. Bristol ( ˈbrɪstəl is a city, Unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London The former County of Avon was a non-metropolitan county and ceremonial county in the west of England, named after the River Avon, which Teesside is the name given to the Conurbation in the North East of England made up of the towns of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees Cleveland is an area in the north east of England. Its name means literally "cliff-land" referring to its hilly southern areas which rise to nearly. In most areas though, the 1974 system was far more conservative and retained more traditional boundaries.

The situation of wholly two-tier government did not last. The county councils for the metropolitan counties were abolished in 1986 by Margaret Thatcher's government, making the metropolitan boroughs into unitary authorities. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. A further set of reforms in the 1990s led to the re-establishment of many old county boroughs as unitary authorities, along with other areas.

In 2004 the Government put forward a proposal to introduce directly-elected regional assemblies in the three regions of Northern England, should referendums produce a 'yes' vote (in the event the first region voted 'no' overwhelmingly, and the other referendums were abandoned). " Regional Assembly " is the name which has been adopted by the English bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies The region, also known as the government office region, is currently the highest tier of local government sub-national entity of England, with only one Northern England, The North, The North of England or (less commonly The North Country refers to the parts of England north of an ill-defined line The Northern England devolution referendums were Referendums starting with the North East region of England, in the United Kingdom, 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 government in the affected regions. In the area of Cumbria and Lancashire, the proposals bear a striking resemblance to the ones in the Report. Boundaries and divisions Cumbria is neighboured by Northumberland, County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Lieutenancy Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea

Proposed Unitary Areas

'* Greater London (as at present)

Proposed Metropolitan Areas

Merseyside

(Merseyside, plus the districts of West Lancashire, Halton, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Chester and part of Vale Royal)

• Southport-Crosby (the districts of West Lancashire and Sefton, except Bootle County Borough)
• Liverpool (the district of Liverpool, the western part of Knowsley and Bootle County Borough)
• St Helens-Widnes (the districts of St Helens, Halton and the eastern part of Knowsley)
• South Merseyside (The districts of Wirral, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Chester and part of Vale Royal)

Selnec

(South East Lancashire - North East Cheshire) (Greater Manchester, plus the northern part of Cheshire)

• Wigan-Leigh (district of Wigan)
• Bolton (district of Bolton, plus part of Blackburn with Darwen)
• Bury-Rochdale (districts of Bury and Rochdale)
• Warrington (district of Warrington and part of Vale Royal)
• Manchester (district of Manchester, part of Salford, part of Trafford)
• Oldham (district of Oldham)
• Altrincham-Northwich (southern part of district of Trafford, Vale Royal and western part of Macclesfield)
• Stockport (district of Stockport, eastern part of Macclesfield and adjacent areas of Derbyshire)
• Ashton-Hyde (district of Tameside, plus areas around Glossop)

West Midlands

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• Mid-Staffordshire ( the districts of Tamworth, Lichfield, Cannock Chase, the northern part of South Staffordshire and the area around Stafford)
• Wolverhampton (as current district, plus the middle part of South Staffordshire)
• Walsall (as current district)
• Dudley (as current district except Halesowen, plus southern part of South Staffordshire
• West Bromwich-Warley (the district of Sandwell plus Halesowen)
• Birmingham (as current district plus Solihull)
• North Worcestershire (the districts of Wyre Forest, Bromsgrove, Redditch)

References

1. ^ Authorities should have freedom to decide priorities. Tamworth is a Town and local government district in Staffordshire, England, located 14 miles (22 km north-east of Birmingham Lichfield is a city and Civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Cannock Chase ( is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. This article is about the town of Stafford England For the larger local government district see Borough of Stafford. Halesowen is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England. History of the Borough The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the County boroughs of Warley (associated with Worcestershire Halesowen is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England. Solihull (ˈsɒlɪhʌl or /ˈsəʊlihʌl/ is a large town in the West Midlands of England, with a population of 94753 Parishes in Wyre Forest District Kidderminster is unparished Areley Kings Bewdley Broome Bromsgrove is a Town in Worcestershire, West Midlands, England. Redditch is a Town and local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England. The Times. June 12, 1969.
2. ^ M.J. Wise, Review: The Future of Local Government in England: The Redcliffe-Maud Report, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 135, No. 4. (Dec., 1969), pp. 583-587 at JSTOR, accessed November 28, 2007
3. ^ Action is on lines proposed by Redcliffe-Maud. The Times. February 5, 1970.