Local Government Act 1985
The legislation permitted councils to form 'joint arrangements' for waste disposal and other services that they wished to provide together.Following the victory of the Conservative Party at the 1979 general election, Margaret Thatcher's government were involved in a series of high-profile disputes with the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils.The Conservative manifesto for the 1983 general election pledged their abolition, describing the councils as "a wasteful and unnecessary tier of government".[1] Having won a landslide victory in the 1983 General Election, the government published a white paper in October of that year, Streamlining the cities.At the time of the Act, one third of the population of England were living in Greater London and the metropolitan counties.
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