{"id":533450,"date":"2025-10-28T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:53:18","slug":"surrey-to-be-split-in-two-in-council-reorganisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533450\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey to be split in two in council reorganisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Reed wrote: &#8220;My view is that the two unitary proposal is more likely to be financially sustainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Putting Surrey&#8217;s local authorities on a more sustainable footing is vital to safeguarding the services its residents rely on, as well as investing in their futures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that having one council in charge in each area will see &#8220;quicker decisions to speed up house building and get vital infrastructure projects moving, while attracting new investment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once approved, the government will pass a law abolishing the existing councils and establish new structures with the start expected in April 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Oliver, leader of Surrey County Council, said: &#8220;Reorganisation and devolution are huge opportunities, and this is good news for Surrey residents and businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A written statement was issued in parliament on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Reed wrote: &#8220;My view is that the two unitary proposal is more likely to be financially sustainable.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-533450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115452366294873024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}