Talk:Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

I put this back in Category:British laws, as it was passed by the UK parliament. Kurando | ^_^ 16:19, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland
Thinking there should be a ref to the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland somewhere in the article. Laurel Bush 17:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC).
 * Added. Owain (talk) 19:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Cheers. Laurel Bush 09:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC).

Redirects instead of piping?
I imagine the wording under The new local government areas is that used in the Act. Eg, county of Inverness, not Inverness-shire. Wondering whether and to what extent it would be possible to use redirects, such as county of Inverness, rather than piping, so that what appear to be quotes will be more faithful to the original. Laurel Bush 09:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC).

Wheatley Report
Wheatley Report proposed 7 regions. Doesn't say what they are in my source but it seems to be describing Strathclyde, Lothian, Tayside and Grampian as being based around Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen. There was a "south-east" authority and persumably also a Highland one. Dunno which of Fife/Dumfries and Galloway/Central Scotland didn't count towards the 7.

This all from Pay for Scottish Councillors Urged, The Times, 26 September 1969.

Morwen - Talk 16:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


 * According to Scottish Civic Heraldry by R M Urquahart (1979) the 7 regions (and 37 districts) named in the report of the Royal commission on Local government (Cmnd.4150), consisted of the following counties:


 * Highlands and Islands :Zetland, Orkney, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross & C, Inverness, Nairn, Moray (southern end), Banff (south-western end), Argyll (except south-eastern part): to have 8 districts
 * North-East :Moray (except southern end), Banff (except south-western end), Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen, Kincardine (northern half): 4 districts
 * East: Kincardine (southern half), Angus, City of Dundee, Perth (except south-western part and small part in south), Kinross, Fife (northern half): 4 Districts
 * South-East: Fife (southern half except for south-western corner), East Lothian, Midlothian, City of Edinburgh, W Lothian (except north-western part), Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh (except south-western end), Berwick: 6 districts
 * Central: Perth (part not in East), Stirling (except south-western part), Clackmannan, Fife (south-western corner), W Lothian (north-western part),: 2 Districts
 * West: Argyll (south-eastern part), Bute, Dunbarton, Stirling (south-western part), Lanark, City of glasgow, Renfrew, Ayr: 11 Districts
 * South-West: Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, Dunfries, Roxburgh (south-western end): 2 districts


 * He goes on to say there were about 400 commemts sent to the Scottish Office. The main objections being to the splitting of Fife, the lack of a separate Borders region, West region being too big, and the lack of special councils for Shetland, Orkney and W Isles.


 * The Government's own white paper in Feb 1971 Reform of Local Government in Scotland (Cmnd 4583) changed the number of regions to eight and districts to 49: Highlands (10 Districts), North-East (5), East (4), South-East (6), Borders (4), Central (3), West (13), South-West (4), and 2 islands areas (Shetland, Orkney)


 * The West region, renamed Strathclyde, got bigger, gaining nearly all Argyll, but losing SW Ayrshire
 * North East got the whole of Kincardine
 * Part of South-East went to the new Borders region
 * Highlands and Islands renamed Highlands, lost Shetland, Orkney and most of Argyll
 * South East region renamed Forth
 * South west renamed Dunfries & Galloway, gained SW Ayrshire


 * In December 1971 changes were announced in parliament:

Lozleader 18:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Western Isles to be an island area
 * Fife became region
 * Forth region renamed Lothian
 * Strathclyde got even bigger, regaining SW Ayrshire from D&G
 * Number of districts in Strathclyde increased from 13 to 19, with 4 spilt off from Glasgow district, 2 being made in Ayrshire
 * Some minor boundary changes and some changes to district names were made


 * In the Times October 16, 1973 it reports that the Lords passed an amendment at committee stage to split Strathclyde into four regions.Lozleader 19:28, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Which was overturned in The Commons according to the October 23 edition. Lozleader 19:31, 17 September 2006 (UTC)