The UK government will replace Surrey County Council and its 11 borough and district councils with two new unitary councils, which will provide most local services to the area's 1.2 million residents.

Splitting up Surrey is the first part of a massive reorganization of English local government that looks set to soak up the sector's technology capacity for years.

Surrey, the first of 21 areas that will undergo local government reorganization (LGR), will move to its new two-council structure on April 1, 2027. The government plans that all other parts of England served by upper-tier county councils and lower-tier borough, city, and district councils, as well as in some cases neighboring unitary councils, will have unitary councils from April 1, 2028.

More than 200 existing councils are lik

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