In OTL, between 1966 and 69, a report was published advocating a radical overhaul of Local Government in England - it called for the existing system that had existed since 1889 to be scrapped and for England to be divided into Provinces, which would in turn be subdivided into Unitary Authorities, the latter being often based on the old counties but often not.
Below is a map of what England would have looked like:
Each province was to be given their own Provincial Council whose prime power and responsibility, according to Wikipedia, was in drawing up Development Plans.
In OTL, however, the Labour Government that planned to pass this into law was voted out of office in 1970, and in 1972 the Conservative Party passed a different Local Government Act that scrapped the Provinces idea entirely, and continued the status quo of counties being the highest level administrative division in England.
So here is the question that comes to mind. What if the recommendations of this report had been implemented, and these Provinces with their Provincial Councils had been created, as England's highest level administrative divisions?
Could these Provincial Councils have eventually become devolved legislatures, like the OTL Welsh Assembly? In OTL, when the Labour Government of 1997-2010 held a Referendum in the North East over where or not to create a devolved regional assembly, in the manner of the recently created Welsh/Northern Irish Assemblies the result was 78% against, the people just did not want another layer of politicians.
However, if in ATL these provincial councils had already existed since the 1960s, albeit as a larger version of County Councils and not as actual devolved legislatures, could they have easily turned into Devolved Legislatures during the age of Devolution? Would the public have been more pro-devolution if that layer of government had already existed and if it had merely meant a transfer of powers?
Either way, the map of England would be so radically different today.