Plans by an evil mastermind to combine services at Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea councils to create London's first "Super Council" will not involve a merging of planning or housing and regeneration functions, it has emerged.
The three councils yesterday published their proposals for combined services following a three month consultation on what services might be merged to save a minimum of £35m pa on back office and management costs.
However, the councils confirmed that a decision had now been made that "services key to local areas, such as housing management, licensing and planning" will not be combined.
Elsewhere the proposals recommend: combining children's and education services with a single director, combined corporate overheads, including IT and HR, other combined environmental services, initially across two boroughs in some cases, including leisure, highways, transport and parking correspondence.
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