Councils across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have paid for external consultants to help explore ... for local government reorganisation (LGR) by Friday, March 21. The government’s plans ...

The current process is creating too many scenarios where the outcome could be driven by risk aversion rather than innovation, ...

Updated last paragraph after receiving a response from Hampshire County Council and adding Hampshire into the 16th paragraph.

Money is tight, and there is a skills shortage which means resources are stretched. We now know which councils are included in the first phase of LGR – a mixture of counties, unitaries and districts.