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BOUNDARY REVIEW
South West Devon MP Gary Streeter has organised a meeting with the Rt Hon John Denham MP, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for 14 January 2010 to take a delegation from Devon along with other Devon MPs to urge the Government to leave local government structures in Devon alone.
The MP has reacted swiftly to the Boundary Committee publishing its recent report recommending a single unitary authority for Devon, excluding the existing unitaries of Plymouth and Torbay.
"The cost of reorganisation would be colossal," said Mr Streeter, "and the uncertainty and chaos it would create would impact services in the short term. Devon under new management is already cooperating closely with the district councils and looking to make savings wherever it can. The government should leave well alone".
The MP has already extracted a clear commitment from the shadow cabinet that should the Conservatives win the next election they would not impose a unitary authority upon Devon. "To ram this through on the eve of an election smacks of political spitefulness." the MP concluded.
15 December 2009
