{"id":1541,"date":"2026-06-27T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:22:30","slug":"burnham-2026-burnham-2027-regional-devolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Burnham 2026 Burnham 2027 Regional devolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hometown Warrington<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Warrington Borough Council\u2019s<\/strong> total external debt currently sits at just below <strong>\u00a31.4 billion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor of Manchester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Manchester City Council\u2019s<\/strong> overall borrowing and debt stands at <strong>\u00a31.6 billion<\/strong>, following a \u00a3289 million increase. While this places the city among the UK&#8217;s most indebted local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This massive liability\u2014the highest for a unitary authority in England\u2014stems from a controversial commercial investment portfolio that the council formally admitted &#8220;has failed&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure these following <strong>debt free councils<\/strong> will jump at regional control and not share in Warrington and Manchester debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Hertfordshire District Council. Forest of Dean District Council. East Cambridgeshire District Council. Hertsmere Borough Council. Middlesbrough Council. Oadby and Wigston Borough Council. Babergh District Council. Mid Suffolk District Council. Ribble Valley Borough Council. Richmondshire &nbsp;District Council. North Norfolk District Council. High Peak Borough Council. Worcester City Council. Malvern Hills District Council. Wychavon District Council. Redditch Borough Council. Bromsgrove District Council. Wycombe District Council. Chiltern District Council. South Bucks District Council. Aylesbury Vale District Council. South Northamptonshire Council. Northampton Borough Council. Daventry District Council. Corby Borough Council. Kettering Borough Council. Wellingborough Council. East Northamptonshire Council. South Oxfordshire District Council. Vale of White Horse District Council. Cherwell District Council. West Oxfordshire District Council. Oxford City Council. East Hampshire District Council. Rushmoor Borough Council. Hart District Council. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets call it <strong>the Burnham Burnout Year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hometown Warrington Warrington Borough Council\u2019s total external debt currently sits at just below \u00a31.4 billion Mayor of Manchester Manchester City Council\u2019s overall borrowing and debt stands at \u00a31.6 billion, following a \u00a3289 million increase. While this places the city among the UK&#8217;s most indebted local authorities. This massive liability\u2014the highest for a unitary authority in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/?p=1541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burnham 2026 Burnham 2027 Regional devolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RUXD-oR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.presafe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}