Current Survey: Say No To Yartoft

The creation of a unitary authority covering the Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Waveney District Council areas has become more likely following the Government's decision to review the structure of local Government in Norfolk and Suffolk.

If England's boroughs and counties are wiped off the map and replaced with sub-regional hybrids, it will weaken local identities and create a vacuum in which unelected Quangos suck up power.

There is very little evidence to suggest that services within our area would improve and the process of reorganisation would have a serious impact on the wider quality of life enjoyed by Yarmouth residents.

A unitary authority will require a new budget structure, the redistribution of assets and property, the relocation and redeployment of staff and the possible renegotiation of existing contracts. All this pen pushing will distract our councils from what they are elected to do - representing the interests of the people of Yarmouth and Norfolk.

The creation of a unitary Yartoft would result in a duplication of effort and create an unnecessary tier of bureaucracy. It is the people of Yarmouth who would ultimately suffer.