We’d like to welcome you to a public engagement event near you to help shape the future of council services in Devon.

We’d be really grateful if you could also share details of these events in your communities to encourage as many people as possible to join us. www.westdevon.gov.uk/lgr-events.

Please feel free to share or print off and display one of the posters for an event near you - you can download them from the links below.

Anyone attending will be able to hear about our proposal, discuss what's important to them and ask questions.

The engagement events start at 6:15 p.m. and end at 8:00 p.m. with doors opening at 6:00 p.m.

• 01 September 2025 – Tavistock Town Hall, Tavistock - Poster
• 02 September 2025 – Ockment Centre, Okehampton - Poster
• 03 September 2025 – Princetown Community Centre, Princetown - Poster
• 08 September 2025 – Tamar Room, Arundel Arms, Lifton - Poster
• 10 September 2025 – Bridestowe Village Hall, Bridestowe - Poster
• 11 September 2025 – Jubilee Hall, Chagford - Poster
• 25 September 2025 – St Paul’s Church, Yelverton - Poster

A daytime drop-in session has also been organised:

• 23 September 2025 – Hatherleigh Market, Hatherleigh. 10am – 12 noon

To find out more and to book a place on one of the engagement events please visit our website.

You can also get involved and help shape the future of Devon by sharing your views in our survey.

Local reorganisation is just one way that national government plans to reform local government in England. The other is through devolution.

1.Local Government Reorganisation

This involves replacing the current two-tier system of county and district councils with new unitary authorities that serve larger populations.

2. Devolution

Powers and funding will be transferred from central government (Whitehall) to local areas. New regional Strategic Authorities will be created, each led by an elected Mayor. These authorities will cover areas with populations over 1.5 million in regions of England that do not already have them.

Council leaders across Devon have now joined forces to call for the creation of a South West Peninsula Mayoral Strategic Authority.

You can read more in our joint press release