THE leader of Essex County Council’s Reform Group, Councillor Peter Harris, has today (13 May) written to Steve Reed MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, indicating that the council intends to issue a legal challenge to the Government on its plans for Local Government Reorganisation in Greater Essex.
In the letter, Councillor Harris informs the Secretary of State he is “unequivocally opposed to the principle of your proposals.”
He continues: “We will utilise all resources at our disposal to challenge and resist LGR.
Accordingly, as my first formal action as Reform UK group leader at Essex, I yesterday instructed that lawyers prepare a pre-action protocol letter to you which I already have in my possession and, subject to my group’s approval, will be sending to you later this week in order to formalise our objections.”
