SIR – Is proposed secession of Shipley and Keighley from Bradford Metropolitan District Council a devolution too far?
Mind you, bigger is not always better as in 1972 paying rates to Pudsey Council at £27 per annum including water from Bradford, we were dragged in to Leeds in 1974 when our modest rates doubled to £60 by 1976.
Pudsey’s assets exchanged for Leeds’ debts, a classic case of swapping a Roland for an Oliver.
Water the same, with local authority water merged into Yorkshire Water Authority then privatised, with today my water bill more than electric.
I can see the logic but as explained the make-up of West Yorkshire’s five local authorities is governed by Acts of Parliament making any change a matter of new legislation, with not much chance of that today with Brexit, etc, going on.
D S Boyes, Upper Rodley Lane, Leeds
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