Bridgwater Town Council is currently exploring taking on the delivery of and responsibility for numerous local services as part of the new unitary model of local government in Somerset.

Source: https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/23527551.residents-share-thoughts-recreation-building/?ref=rss

Every week, the two neighbouring unitary authorities receive hundreds of planning applications and we have selected some of the most interesting proposals.

Source: https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/brutalist-church-near-bath-could-8906246

He saw human associations rather, as groups to be so that all thinking and daily behaviour could be folded into the like-minded units of a unitary state.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/01/no_author/systems-dynamics-follow-their-own-rules-and-not-groupthink/

It will be the final time Scarborough Borough Council makes the awards before the authority is abolished at the end of March to be replaced by a new unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-64925215?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Residents’ access to democracy under a new unitary authority has come under fresh focus after councillors were barred from engaging with residents’ concerns at a meeting.

Source: https://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/23828401.councillors-barred-responding-residents-questions/?ref=rss

Ripon City Council leader Andrew Williams, who will sit on the new unitary authority North Yorkshire Council, said he is keeping an open mind about the application and called on both businesses and the cathedral to find common ground.

Source: https://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/23325012.businesses-facing-battle-ripon-cathedral-6m-expansion/?ref=rss

SOMERSET’S new unitary authority plans to spend more than £258m on new and major infrastructure projects in its first year of operation.

Source: https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/23318986.somerset-council-spend-258m-major-projects-2023/?ref=rss

The rest of the councils being elected on Thursday are a mixture of metropolitan and unitary ones - single local authorities that deal with all local services.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65475411?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Thurrock Council is a unitary authority in Essex, meaning it is responsible for things such as road maintenance, bin collections, recycling, libraries, transport and education.

Source: https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/thurrock-councils-services-including-bin-8526467

"We want to have a single market across the UK, minimising divergence, particularly in trade - the principal is that there are certain things we should do on a unitary basis - we have the same recycling scheme because goods travel across borders.

Source: https://www.insider.co.uk/news/offord-lets-learn-drs-lessons-30163880

We will go from having six District Councils and a County Council to having just two unitary councils – one serving the west and the other the east and south.

Source: https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23239756.cumbria-needs-elected-mayor---mean-money-powers/?ref=rss