Editing Northamptonshire (section)

====Structural changes====
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In early 2018, following the events above, Government-appointed commissioners took over control of the council's affairs. Consequently, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government commissioned an independent report which, in March 2018, proposed structural changes to local government in Northamptonshire. These changes, implemented on 1 April 2021, saw the existing county council and district councils abolished and two new unitary authorities created in their place.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Northamptonshire County Council 'should be scrapped' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-40610349 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=15 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319180715/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-40610349 |archive-date=19 March 2018 |access-date=20 June 2018 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> One unitary authority, [[West Northamptonshire]], consists of the former districts of [[Daventry District|Daventry]], [[Northampton]] and [[South Northamptonshire]]; the other, [[North Northamptonshire]], consists of the former [[East Northamptonshire]] district and the former boroughs of [[Borough of Corby|Corby]], [[Borough of Kettering|Kettering]] and [[Borough of Wellingborough|Wellingborough]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Northamptonshire County Council 'should be split up', finds damning report |url=http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-03-15/northamptonshire-county-council-should-be-split-up-finds-damning-report/ |publisher=[[ITV News]] |date=15 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802223701/http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-03-15/northamptonshire-county-council-should-be-split-up-finds-damning-report/ |archive-date=2 August 2018 |access-date=30 May 2018 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>