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reorganisation was not accompanied by boundary changes to the former district council
areas with the result that unitary councils such as Reading or Portsmouth only control
a small proportion of the functional area which utilises these places as their main
employment and service centre.

Table 10.4 Local government in England outside London (by geographical county)

Region Metropolitan areas Non-metropolitan areas

Single PTA
+ unitary
metropolitan
councils

Wholly two-tier
(county + districts)

Wholly unitary
councils

Mixed; two-tier and
unitary council(s)

North-East Tyne and Wear Northumberland* Cleveland (Tees-

side)

County Durham*

Yorkshire
and the
Humber

South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire

Humberside
(Hull/Grimsby)

North Yorkshire

North-
West

Greater
Manchester
Merseyside

Cumbria Cheshire*

Lancashire

West
Midlands

West Midlands Warwickshire Herefordshire

(single unitary)

Shropshire*
Staffordshire
Worcestershire

East
Midlands

Lincolnshire
Northamptonshire

Derbyshire
Leicestershire
Nottinghamshire

East of
England

Cambridgeshire
Hertfordshire
Norfolk** Suffolk**

Bedfordshire**
Essex

South-East Oxfordshire Surrey

East Sussex

Berkshire Buckinghamshire

Hampshire
Kent
West Sussex

Devon**
Dorset Wiltshire*
* As part of the Government's policy of pursuing the further rationalisation of local government it has
announced its intention to accept authorities' proposals for replacing existing two-tier arrangements
with single unitary councils in these areas (two unitaries in Cheshire) - these to be established in 2009

South-West Gloucestershire

Somerset Cornwall*

Avon (Bristol/
Bath)

**Options for reform continue to be investigated in these areas (2008)