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Work plan

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the original work plan is [1]

  1. Avon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Cleveland, County Durham, Humberside, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Isle of Wight
  2. Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire
  3. Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, Northamptonshire
  4. Dorset, Essex, Hereford and Worcester, Norfolk, Suffolk, Wiltshire
  5. Cornwall, Hertfordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Surrey, Warwickshire

Timeline

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1992

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1994

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1995

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  • early: John Banham resigns as chair of the Commission.
  • March 21 - John Gummer makes a statement in the house. David Cooksey is to be the chair of the new Commission.

John Gummer announces that he is going to accept the recommendations of the commission with respect to

with the reservation that certain districts will be referred back.

In some areas he disagrees

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He decides to add Norwich and The Wrekin to the list of districts to be reconsidered.

  • April - the Wight order takes effect
  • December 19 the recommendations of the Commission are made to the government.

Basildon, Broxtowe, Dartford, Exeter, Gedling, Gloucester, Gravesham, Huntingdonshire, Northampton, Norwich, Rushcliffe, and Spelthorne - no change. Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Medway (Gillingham/Rochester), Halton, Warrington, Peterborough, Thurrock, Telford and the Wrekin - the commission consents to change here.

1996

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  • 1996: Cleveland, Humberside, Avon reorganised

Proposals

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Oxfordshire

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Three options

  • 3 unitary districts (june 13, 1994) - Oxford, merged South and Vale, merged West and Cherwell
  • unitary county
  • status quo

Durham

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[4]

initial review

  • Unitary Durham and Darlington

after status quo to be considered

  • unitary in Darlington, status quo elsewhere