A MAMMOTH Devon unitary authority would be vast

and remote. It would be one of the biggest local

authorities in England. Each councillor in the

proposed new authority would serve over 7,000

electors. There's no way local councillors could ever

get to know their constituents or the local issues that

were most important to them.

A single council in Devon would have no alternative

but to cut council services as it fought to pay the huge

costs of becoming a unitary authority.

Many jobs would be lost as frontline services were cut

and many more jobs would move from district

councils around Devon to the new, vast and remote

bureaucracy.

As reported in the regional press recently, council

taxes in Cornwall are set to rise significantly for many

of the tax payers as a result of Cornwall's imposed

unitary authority. Neither Devon County Council nor

the Devon districts have presented any financial plans

to show us how we will be affected by future council

taxes.

Tony and Christine Dion

75 Fern Close

Okehampton