Letter: The Government's hidden agenda on county councils
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Beneath your front-page headline (22 November) you quoted a minister as saying: 'Nowhere have we received any indication from anyone that county councils must stay.'
In our submission as a parish council to the Department of the Environment's consultation paper on The Structure of Local Government in England, we wrote: 'The parish council considers that the county council has an important strategic role to play . . . and should be retained.' (12 June 1991).
We concluded: 'It is essential that, where present authorities are serving their communities well, this arrangement should not be altered for the sake of change.'
I wonder how many similar comments the Government has not received.
Yours sincerely,
BOB DAVIES
Chairman
Kemsing Parish Council
Sevenoaks, Kent
23 November
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