Reorganisation Options

All seven of the councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have been working together to discuss potential options for new unitary councils across the area.

Council leaders announced their three preferred options in early June: Three options announced for council reorganisation plans

These options each contain two new unitary councils that would in future cover the entire Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area and replace all existing seven local authorities.

Following initial work, these options appear to be the most financially viable based on the Government's criteria, and are based on existing authority boundaries. The options are being further developed to be submitted to Government by late November.

No decisions have yet been made on what these new arrangements could look like, but the Government has made it clear that it wants these councils to be unitaries (providing all services and covering all county and district/city functions).

The three options are: