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Combined authority plan for Birmingham 'too ambitious'

17 December 2014
 

A Government review of how Birmingham City Council is run has backed plans for a combined authority to oversee transport and economic development in the city region but suggests the proposed geography is too complex.

Eric Pickles, the communities and local government secretary, and Albert Bore, the Labour leader of the city council, appointed Sir Bob Kerslake, permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government, to review how the council was run after concerns about the...

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