I am writing to express my total dissatisfaction with your preferred option for Norfolk.

Even now there is too much focus on Norwich which I feel will only be exacerbated under your proposal.

The east/west split would be more logical as at least the populus would feel that their local government would remain local and have some understanding of local issues.

The infrastructure of the county is poor and therefore contact with Norwich is very difficult for many, a prime example being the new Norfolk and Norwich hospital. Try visiting that from Lynn.

Centralising everything may seem a good idea to bean counters but they don’t have to live with the results.

Would this vast behemoth really look at the situations of further flung parts of its community?

The drainage and pumping systems of the fenlands, coastal erosion, flood warning systems, the A roads that are solid with caravans because there are no dualled sections to pass them.

Don’t have an urgent need for emergency services on a bank holiday weekend if you’re in Hunstanton because the traffic can be solid back to the A17 almost to Lincolnshire.

With central government already making a pig’s ear of local government by its insistence on ever more bureaucracy and tax, further tampering isn’t needed at all, but if we have to have it at least give the indigenous population the democratic decision it wants.

If you want to save money, how about getting rid of the unelected regional assemblies and various quangos that are foisted upon us?

How much of this nation-wide review is being brought about to alter the voting areas? When I lived in London I noticed that whenever they messed about with the borough boundaries it always seemed as if it was to ensure that the new council would, if at all possible, have a Labour majority.

And, boy, didn’t the Tory sections of the new borough suffer as a consequence.

I am quite happy with my local council as it is.

I can still have my rubbish collected weekly and have my say over local planning matters, wind turbines, etc..’

I feel that your proposal is in contradiction to the governments professed desire to give more control back to local people.

Change your minds to the east/west division. After all is said and done we are in a Peterborough postcode already.

BT doesn’t give this area Norwich phone books. Let West Norfolk have its own identity and government. It needs it. Yours sincerely but with much cynicism.

P. J. Cockburn (Mrs),

Lynn