{"id":2095,"date":"2025-07-10T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:38:20","slug":"surrey-county-council-to-be-split-into-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Surrey County Council to be split into two?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government wants areas like Surrey to become Strategic Authorities \u2014 led by an elected Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, Surrey must first reorganise into unitary councils, which combine county and district &amp; borough services into a single level of government.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey currently has 12 councils and is proposing to reorganise into two new councils \u2013 East Surrey and West Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the consultation (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>open until Tuesday 5th August)<\/strong><\/span> for the Surrey County Council Local Government Reorganisation by starting <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surreycc.gov.uk\/council-and-democracy\/lgr\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have two concerns as follows:<\/p>\n<p>What happens to the existing Surrey County and Borough debt totalling about \u00a35.5bn?<\/p>\n<p>What happens about the SCC commitment (2019) of \u00a3270m towards the River Thames Scheme and other county flood alleviation partnership funding contributions?<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government wants areas like Surrey to become Strategic Authorities \u2014 led by an elected Mayor. 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