{"id":272,"date":"2026-02-10T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/uncategorised\/lgr-consultation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:17:57","slug":"lgr-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Local Government reorganisation consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents and stakeholders across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are\u00a0being invited to take part in\u00a0the\u00a0Government\u2019s\u00a0consultation on\u00a0LGR, which will help shape the future delivery of\u00a0council\u00a0services across the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statutory consultation&nbsp;is&nbsp;seeking&nbsp;views on&nbsp;the&nbsp;four options&nbsp;submitted&nbsp;by councils across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough&nbsp;for LGR.&nbsp;All&nbsp;these&nbsp;submissions&nbsp;would&nbsp;replace&nbsp;the&nbsp;7&nbsp;existing local authorities in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough with new&nbsp;unitary,&nbsp;or single tier,&nbsp;councils.&nbsp;This would mean residents dealing with a single council responsible for all local government services in their&nbsp;community, rather than services being&nbsp;provided by&nbsp;different councils.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Government\u2019s statutory&nbsp;consultation is now live and will run from 5 February to 26 March 2026.&nbsp;Members,&nbsp;residents&nbsp;and stakeholder&nbsp;organisations&nbsp;can&nbsp;submit&nbsp;their views online&nbsp;at:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/local-government-reorganisation-in-cambridgeshire-and-peterborough\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/local-government-reorganisation-in-cambridgeshire-and-peterborough<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents and stakeholders across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are being invited to take part in the Government\u2019s consultation on LGR, which will help shape the future delivery of council services across the area.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenyoung.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}