"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."
"In April 2023, as part of a smaller round of LGR that involved three areas, a new unitary Somerset Council replaced a county council and four districts. It inherited four different electoral management systems from the districts, although three were from the same supplier, iDox, and it was able to migrate to its latest offering in time for elections held that May."
Surrey County Council and its 11 borough and district councils will be replaced by two unitary councils serving 1.2 million residents from April 1, 2027, as the first step in a nationwide reorganization. All remaining county and district areas are planned to move to unitary councils by April 1, 2028, likely abolishing more than 200 existing councils. Local government technologists will need to merge or split hundreds of specialist software systems, migrate legacy records, and decide on standard packages or licenses. Successor unitary councils must take over council tax collection, electoral rolls, planning systems, and maintain services during migration. A 2023 Somerset example shows electoral system consolidation and migration under LGR.
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