Does local govt. in the UK force a division between urban and rural areas

[Angry Young Man]

Probably a bit of a moot point, but in the cobweb of boredom, I'm reading about local government. What strikes me is that nearly all cities are unitary authorities whose frontiers are almost the same as the cities'. At the moment I'm living in Bristol, but I've lived in Yorkshire, Norfolk, Monmouthshire and Somerset. Discuss how local government should be arranged in the immediate post-revolutionary society. Given that in the manifesto, Marx said that the city and country should merge, surely a typical region would be, say Hull and nearby farming areas in East Yorks or Birmingham and Warwickshire.

[JammyDodger]

I know a most of the country both city and country is divided into parishes (maybe all but I cant say that with any confidence), i know we are supposed to keep church and state seperate but since the church has been kind enough to divide our country into bite sized chunks, may aswell use it.

A parish could be the division or our communes and all parishes linked to the city.
And then that combined unit of these parishes both the countryside and city would would form the county combined and able to report its needs to the government.

So if we take leicestershire where i grew up.

Parishes form local structure, perhaps a rep from each parish elected by its members meet at county level, and a rep elected amongst these takes the counties needs to government.

Im just spit balling though, ive not given it a great deal of thought.

If the above aint very clear, ive got the wife yapping in my ear and I blame that