The Royal Commission's 1969 report, known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report, proposed the removal of much of the then existing system of local government.

Although the Redcliffe-Maud Report was rejected by the Conservative government after the 1970 general election, there was a commitment to local government reform, and the need for a metropolitan county of South Yorkshire.

Instead, a Royal Commission was set up to review English local government entirely, and its report ( known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report ) proposed a much wider Merseyside metropolitan area covering southwest Lancashire and northwest Cheshire, extending as far south as Chester and as far north as the River Ribble.

The Redcliffe-Maud Report was rejected by the incoming Conservative Party government, but the concept of a two-tier metropolitan area based on the Mersey area was retained.

In the Redcliffe-Maud Report no directly-analogous area had been proposed, with the part north of the Humber consisting of one unitary authority, and the part south of it constituting another.

Although Halton dates back to the 12th century ( and beyond ) when land on both sides of the river belonged to the Barony of Halton, the origin of the District Council was the outcome of the local government commission's suggested reforms of England, in 1969, the Redcliffe-Maud Report.

This speech eventually led to the Redcliffe-Maud Report recommending large unitary councils for all England.

The proposed provinces of the Redcliffe-Maud Report

With reforms of local government in London in 1965 and across England in anticipation of the implementation of the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1974, a number of local authorities commissioned new civic centres sometimes funded by disposing of their 19th Century Town Hall buildings.

In Lancashire and Cumbria the proposals for multiple unitary authorities were very similar to those proposed by the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1969.

SELNEC had been proposed by the Redcliffe-Maud Report of 1969 as a " metropolitan area ".

The Redcliffe-Maud Report commissioned by Harold Wilson's Labour Party government recommended that a large " metropolitan area " be created around the Birmingham / Black Country conurbation, also including its rural hinterland.

This led to ( apart from in the east, with Coventry and the Meriden Gap ) quite a tightly defined metropolitan border, excluding such places as Burntwood, Bromsgrove, Cannock, Kidderminster, Lichfield and Wombourne which had been considered for inclusion in the West Midlands metropolitan area by the Redcliffe-Maud Report, but excluding only a small amount that was considered part of the contiguous built-up area of the West Midlands conurbation in 2001.

When the Redcliffe-Maud Report was campaigned against by rural district councils Swale R. D. C.

The next proposals for local government reform in the area were made in 1968, when the Redcliffe-Maud Commission made its report.

The Redcliffe-Maud Commission had not considered Wales, which had been the subject of the Welsh Office proposals in the 1960s.

4040 ) is the name generally given to the report published by the Royal Commission on Local Government in England 1966 – 1969 under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud.

Smith was also to serve on the Buchanan Committee on traffic management and the Redcliffe-Maud Commission on local government.

The White Paper outlined principles, including an acceptance of the minimum population of 250, 000 for education authorities in the Redcliffe-Maud report, and its findings that the division of functions between town and country had been harmful, but that some functions were better performed by smaller units.

By coincidence, Moate had moved the motion opposing Redcliffe-Maud at the Conservative Party conference.

By coincidence, Moate had moved the motion opposing Redcliffe-Maud at the Conservative Party conference.

Walker decided that a future Conservative government could not implement Redcliffe-Maud, but refused to disown the report completely.

Although the Redcliffe-Maud report was rejected by the Conservative Party government after it won the 1970 general election, it was committed to local government reform, and accepted the need for a county based on Manchester.

Its original proposal was much smaller than the Redcliffe-Maud Report's SELNEC, but further fringe areas such as Wilmslow, Warrington and Glossop were trimmed from the edges and included instead in the shire counties.

The members of the Commission were Redcliffe-Maud ( chair ), John Eveleigh Bolton ( vice-chair ), Derek Senior, Sir James William Francis Hill, Victor Grayson Hardie Feather, Arthur Hedley Marshall, Peter Mursell, John Laurence Longland, Reginald Charles Wallis, Thomas Dan Smith and Dame Evelyn Adelaide Sharp.

The regional boundaries proposed were very similar to the three northern Redcliffe-Maud provinces.

The new government made Peter Walker and Graham Page the ministers, and quickly dropped the Redcliffe-Maud report.

The Association of Municipal Corporations put forward a scheme with 13 provincial councils and 132 main councils, about twice the number proposed by Redcliffe-Maud.

Many of the new boundaries proposed by the Redcliffe-Maud report were retained in the White Paper.

The Redcliffe-Maud report led to a reconsideration of the plans, especially with respect to Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, and a March 1970 White Paper proposed three unitary authorities for South Wales, based on Cardiff, Swansea and Newport.

In the United Kingdom, the similar proposals were drawn up, and a command paper produced named the Bullock Report ( Industrial democracy ).

Mackenzie's reform proposals resulted in no action, however, since Sir Francis Bond Head, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1836, received instructions from the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Lord Glenelg, to disregard the Seventh Report on Grievances.

The WG developed a package with proposals, which consists of three “ tools ”: The CIMIC Situation Report itself, the CIMIC Tracking System and a standardised Commander's Update.

It was reported in the Independent in December 2011 that Hoban had been involved in meetings with bankers lobbying to avoid proposals in the Vickers Report that were intended to reduce risks in the banking industry.

In the 1950s, there were four initial proposals for developing the national education system: the Barnes Report ( favoured by the Malays ), Ordinance Report ( modification of the Barnes Report ), the Fenn-Wu Report ( favoured by the Chinese and Indians ), and the Razak Report ( a compromise between the two reports ).

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* Report on the Family and the Rights of Children: Executive summary, List of proposals and full report ( January 2006 )

These proposals effectively ignored traditional boundaries, to a much greater extent than the Report itself did.

In the area of Cumbria and Lancashire, the proposals bear a striking resemblance to the ones in the Report.

In Britain, the proposals for co-determination were drawn up, and a command paper produced named the Bullock Report.

In June 2001, the Gothenburg European Council endorsed a Full Report on Northern Dimension Policies that, while taking stock of the activities undertaken to implement the Feira Action Plan, also outlined ideas and proposals for the continuation of the Northern Dimension initiative.

Although the English & Welsh Law Commission in Report 283 proposed to amend the law to create separate personality for all general partnerships, the British government decided not to implement the proposals relating to general partnerships.

The referendum was held under the terms of the Wales Act 1978 drawn up to implement proposals made by the Kilbrandon Report published in 1973.