REGARDING ‘What a Supercouncil Can Save Taxpayers’, I have been working with business and government for many years on this type of arrangement.

The benefits for citizens are always difficult.

On the face of it a shared organisation will need fewer staff to administer at all levels, it will be able to get better deals from its suppliers, probably reduce the premises it needs to operate, work more efficiently across the conurbation.

If we ensure the savings are realised then we can either save money or divert it to frontline services.

The numbers of councillors is a hard one... they don’t tend to actually manage services but set policy based on what we citizens care about.

Reducing them could reduce our voice in how the “super council” is run and that might not be good – we’d need to be sure fewer councillors could represent larger groups of people first.

ADAM HOBBS

Wentworth Avenue, Bournemouth

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