Journalist Christian Doherty looks at how the latest deal, part of England’s new wave of local government reorganisations, was achieved and what the two new unitary authorities will mean for Surrey.
Debt-ridden Woking Borough Council is to receive an initial bailout of £500m as the government gave the go-ahead to proposals to create two new unitary authorities in Surrey.
The scale of Woking Borough Council’s initial bailout will be finalised in September, the government said as it put rival proposals for redrawing local government boundaries in Surrey out to...
