Latest news - local government reorganisation decision
Government has confirmed its decision on local government reorganisation in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
- This will see two new unitary councils covering:
- North Staffordshire, and
- Southern and Mid Staffordshire
These two new councils will replace Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent’s ten existing county, city, district and borough councils Including Tamworth, and be responsible for all council services including housing, StreetScene, bins, education, children’s and adult’s social care, roads etc.
For Tamworth this means that all of us, along with the services we deliver will be delivered by Southern and Mid Staffordshire Council from April 2028.
See the statement from the Leader of Tamworth Borough Council, Councillor Carol Dean.
More information: Local government reorganisation
What’s happening?
In December 2024, the government published plans for local government reorganisation and devolution. The government views these proposals as parallel processes, they are distinct from each other.
The plans outlined in the ‘Power and Partnership: Foundations for Growth’ White Paper aim to:
- Devolve decision making powers from central government to local ‘strategic authority areas’, enabling them to make decisions tailored to their specific economic, social, and geographic circumstances. This is called devolution
- Simplify the current two-tier system of local government, as seen in Staffordshire, where services are provided by both county and district/borough councils, moving instead to larger unitary authorities that would deliver all services within their area. This is called local government reorganisation.
More information: Devolution
More information: Local government reorganisation