Their report states "bureaucracy, duplication and inefficiencies built into the two-tier system of [local] government are ...

Essex could be split into three regions as part of a huge shakeup of local government in Essex, which will see all the ...

Epping Forest councillors voted in favour of a three-unitary model for Essex local government reforms, while Harlow Council backed a ...

Five unitaries would deliver greater net savings for Essex than reorganising to either four or three unitaries in the long term, analysis published by the group of councils pursuing that model says.

Harlow Council has backed the creation of a new West Essex unitary authority with Epping Forest and Uttlesford as part of wider reforms to ...

Plans to reform and reduce the number of councils in Essex have been produced. [Getty Images] Proposals of how to radically shake up local democracy and councils in Essex were published this month. It ...