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Wednesday 16 June 2010

Local Authority Leader Boards to be scrapped

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today that the coalition Government plans to roll back regional bureaucracy by abolishing unelected Local Authority Leader Boards.

The Leader Boards, created in the last weeks of the Labour regime, replaced appointed regional assemblies which had previously held responsibility for regional strategies on a range of issues including planning, housing and transport.

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