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    The Redcliffe-Maud Report (Cmnd. 4040) was published in 1969 by the Royal Commission on Local Government in England, under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud...
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    John Primatt Redcliffe Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud, GCB, CBE (3 February 1906 – 20 November 1982), was a British civil servant and diplomat. Born...
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    recreation. Redcliffe-Maud's recommendations were accepted by the Labour government in February 1970. Although the Redcliffe-Maud Report was rejected...
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    business retaining the name. The Royal Commission, proposed in the Redcliffe-Maud Report, a large unitary authority called Teesside. It would have covered...
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  • England Cumbria/Lancashire Cheshire/Greater Manchester/Merseyside The Redcliffe-Maud Report produced by the Royal Commission on local government reform in 1969...
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    to review English local government entirely, and its report (known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report) proposed a much wider Merseyside metropolitan area covering...
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    area have been used or proposed over the years. For example, the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1969, which followed the Royal Commission on the Reform of Local...
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    contiguous county boroughs with no overall metropolitan authority. The Redcliffe-Maud Report of 1969 proposed the creation of three large "metropolitan areas"...
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    Peter Walker and Graham Page the ministers, and quickly dropped the Redcliffe-Maud report. They invited comments from interested parties regarding the previous...
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    Local Government in England was set up in 1966 and produced the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1969, which recommended the complete redrawing of local government...
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    Local Government before issuing a final report. The Royal Commission's 1969 report, known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report, proposed the removal of much of the...
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    non-metropolitan counties. The term "unitary authority" was first used in the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1969 in its current sense of a local government authority which...
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    Saddleworth) and Derbyshire were covered. SELNEC had been proposed by the Redcliffe-Maud Report of 1969 as a "metropolitan area". This had roughly the same northern...
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    Essex Harwich Navyard in Essex Mistley in Essex As part of the Redcliffe-Maud Report of the 1960s, it was proposed that the Haven ports be placed in...
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    intermittent theme of post-Second World War British governments. The Redcliffe-Maud Report proposed the creation of eight provinces in England, which would...
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    explored by several post-Second World War royal commissions. The Redcliffe-Maud Report of 1969 proposed devolving power from central government to eight...
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    around Maypole. Under the Labour Government of 1964 to 1970; the Redcliffe-Maud Report (Cmnd. 4040) recommended the abolition of all existing county, county...
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    divided into four separate boroughs. This was not implemented. The Redcliffe-Maud Report proposed a Tyneside unitary authority, again excluding Sunderland...
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    borough, but the report was not acted upon. The next proposals for local government reform in the area were made in 1968, when the Redcliffe-Maud Commission...
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  • Government Act 1899 Local Government Act 1929 London Government Act 1963 Redcliffe-Maud Report (1969) Local Government Act 1972 Streamlining the cities (1983)...
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    Herefordshire with South Worcestershire was again proposed by the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1969, and was retained in the Conservative Party's February 1971...
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    considered for inclusion in the West Midlands metropolitan area by the Redcliffe-Maud Report. The 1974 reform created the West Midlands County Council that covered...
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    of it was moved to Royton Urban District. It was proposed in the Redcliffe-Maud Report that Middleton become part of a new Metropolitan Borough of Oldham...
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    required for education authorities. This contrasted with both the Redcliffe-Maud Report, and the initial White Paper for the 1974 reforms where large areas...
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  • Brighton & Mid-Sussex, a proposed local government district in the Redcliffe-Maud Report This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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  • as Cannock, Redditch and some surrounding rural districts. The Redcliffe-Maud Report commissioned by Harold Wilson's Labour Party government recommended...
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    and across England in anticipation of the implementation of the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1974, a number of local authorities commissioned new civic centres...
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  • authorities: a system similar to that proposed in the 1960s by the Redcliffe-Maud Report for most of Britain. The name "county" was introduced by the Normans...
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  • Commission on Local Government in England, 1966-1969 which produced the Redcliffe-Maud report. Medieval Lincoln, Cambridge University Press, 1948 xvii, 487 p...
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