Scottish LGR: call for voluntary council mergers

Scottish local government should be reformed through voluntary mergers between councils, with compulsory reorganisation a last resort, a parliamentary committee has heard.

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The risks of previous reorganisations north of the border would have been avoided by agreeing deals with individual authorities instead of imposing a top-down

Scottish LGR: call for voluntary council mergers

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