Crawley councillors have agreed to make a submission to the government setting out the case for a new unitary authority with Reigate & Banstead Borough Council. Conservative leader Duncan Crow said it would lead to poorer services and higher council tax
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00:00This has not been a good evening for Crawley. What we are seeing is an
00:04increasing gap between what the leadership of this council are
00:08advocating and what the people of Crawley actually want. The reality is that if
00:12Crawley goes in with a Surrey authority we will end up with poorer services and
00:17higher council tax because the costs of having to create and maintain that
00:22authority, the desegregation costs across the county boundary will mean less
00:26services for Crawley people. This is a really bad idea and I really hope the
00:31government stops it.