Local Government reorganisation survey

The County council has started an engagement survey open to residents, businesses, town and parish councils, politicians, council workers, other public sector bodies and the community and voluntary sector across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The purpose of this second phase engagement survey is to better inform the public and stakeholders, and to help raise greater understanding about what Local Government Reorganisation means.  This will also seek specific feedback on 1 of the 3 currently preferred options being developed by councils, known as Option A.  

There are currently 3 options being developed, each of which is being led by a different council. Option A is the responsibility of the County Council.  The survey that is being launched recognises that there are two other Options being developed, but specific views on these proposals are not being invited.  Importantly, all three options being developed propose the replacement of the seven current councils with two new unitary councils covering the whole of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough between them.  

Option A specifically proposes creating two new unitaries, one geographically covering the North (built around the footprints of Huntingdonshire, Fenland and Peterborough City) and one covering the South (built around the footprints of East and South Cambridgeshire and Cambridge City).  In all three options being developed, the County Council would cease, and its functions and services would be disaggregated into the two new Councils.

The survey and supporting website material can be found here: https://yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/your-future-councils/