LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Referendum call over council merger plan

Welsh Conservatives have pledged to give local residents a referendum on any proposed council mergers.

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By Dan Peters | 30 September 2015

Welsh Conservatives have pledged to give local residents a referendum on any proposed council mergers.

The amendments tabled by the Welsh Conservatives' shadow minister for local government – Janet Finch-Saunders AM – as Labour's Local Government (Wales) Bill reaches the National Assembly for its third stage of reading.

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