The leader of the largest local authority in the country by area has been reflecting on the first anniversary of the founding of North Yorkshire Council.
The authority was set up on April Fool’s Day last year, absorbing the functions of North Yorkshire County Council, and several district and borough councils, including Harrogate Borough Council, Richmondshire District Council and Scarborough Borough Council.
“It’s the new council that’s going to have to inevitably pay for some of those bad decisions. “I think skeletons in the closet are probably time limited. I think you’ll probably find your skeletons within a short period of time at the start of the new council. “I don’t expect there’ll be big skeletons to pop out in 10 years’ time.
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