Status symbol
Posted by Cptn
Old news, old hat and liable to bore your pants off, but we thought it worthwhile to remind everyone that Exeter has not been granted unitary status. It’s all an issue of who runs council services.
The Exeter City Council thought it would be a ‘good thing’ to run all of its services itself, like Torbay or Plymouth, rather than be part of Devon County Council. The government put a stop to all the shenanigans, but the Boundary Commission is looking at ways to make Exeter bigger, better, stronger, faster – apparently – so that it may become a superstate in its own right and reapply.
But what’s the point of unitary status? Read the council’s own blurb. Or take a gander at this string from a sceptic. And the councillors weren’t happy neither.
If you liked this story, you could buy us a coffee --------------------------------------------------------------------December 8th, 2007
