Sentence examples for became unitary from inspiring English sources

The county council was abolished in 1986, and so its districts (the metropolitan boroughs) effectively became unitary authority areas.

Denham announced yesterday that Exeter and Norwich were to become unitary authorities, with responsibility for all functions of local government from schools to road building to social care.

There were also these developments at the court today: Busing for Integration Without comment, the court refused to review a ruling by the Fourth Circuit last September that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District iNorth Carolinana had effectively dismantled the vestiges of segregation and become "unitary".

The High Court overturned their permission to become unitary councils and take over county council services.

Labour county council leader Jenny Mein said much larger authorities than Chorley had become unitary councils and now found themselves "in a critical financial position".

In Hampshire it recommended that Southampton, Portsmouth and New Forest become unitary authorities.

Whilst Heseltine had expressed a wish for most of the country to become unitary authorities, Howard issued revised guidance on the basis that the "two-tier structure may be appropriate in some areas", and that the costs of reorganisation might be too much for the recession-hit UK economy to take.

In Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland would become unitary authorities, with the rest of the county remaining two-tier – a pattern followed also in County Durham (Darlington), Devon (Plymouth and Torbay), East Sussex (Brighton & Hove), Essex (Southend-on-Sea), Nottinghamshire (Nottingham), Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent) and Wiltshire (Thamesdown).

The Outer Hebrides became a unitary council area in 1975, although in most of the rest of Scotland similar unitary councils were not established until 1996.

Durham became a unitary authority on 1 April.

These regions were administratively abolished in 1963, when Libya became a unitary state.