{"id":694882,"date":"2026-07-16T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:36:14","slug":"massive-expansion-for-plymouth-exeter-and-torbay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694882\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive expansion for Plymouth, Exeter and Torbay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Phil Bialyk, leader of Exeter City Council, has welcomed the announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Local government reorganisation is a unique opportunity to build a brighter future with stronger services and local accountability,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It simplifies things for residents and communities by just having one tier of local government running services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Exeter and Plymouth&#8217;s joint submission recognised the importance of Devon&#8217;s growth areas while ensuring all four new councils have the scale to deliver high-quality services. I am delighted the Government has recognised this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said there was no immediate change, but people would receive more information in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Phil Bialyk, leader of Exeter City Council, has welcomed the announcement. &#8220;Local government reorganisation is a unique&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}