I told you so (Diocese of West Yorkshire

Well the report's out and it seems that my reading of the runes coincides broadly with that of the commission:
"The Report therefore recommends a single diocese for the whole of West Yorkshire"
I wasn't sure how they might handle the rural hinterland and they reckon on the North Yorkshire bits staying with the diocese which has a fair logic to it with area bishops (cf London). In many ways this would be like the Province idea but devolved down a tier (and so avoid complications at this point, not least that the multiplication of provinces would need to be England-wide, really).

So other substantial administrative things...
"There would be a Bishop of Ripon, whose episcopal area would comprise those parts of
North Yorkshire that are within the new diocese. This area could form a single archdeaconry.
The See of Knaresborough would be renamed the See of Ripon and the Archdeaconry of
Richmond would become the Archdeaconry of Richmond and Craven. The present
Archdeaconry of Craven would be dissolved. ...
There would be a Bishop of Leeds, giving dedicated attention to an episcopal area comprising
all the parishes in the City of Leeds that are in the new diocese... s the importance of there being a Bishop of Bradford, who should focus
on the City of Bradford, which would form the Archdeaconry of Bradford. "

Now one of the things that differs from my personal thoughts on this is this:
"Calderdale should not be in the Bradford episcopal area. Instead,
the Archdeaconry of Halifax should be expanded to include the whole of Kirklees and form
an episcopal area"
Ill need to look into their reasoning for that, though I'd admit that Kirklees and Calderdale do share a lot of commonality.
And the following recommendation looks like a leaf out of Gareth Millar's book but with this 'archdiocese' taking the place of a province, even down to the idea of a small episcopal area for the bishop primus (my phrase): "the new diocesan see should therefore be Wakefield. The City of Wakefield is small enough to form an episcopal area for the diocesan bishop of a large diocese. It would form the Archdeaconry of Pontefract."
Oh, and one of the other things I have long said should come to pass is also recommended: that Barnsley deanery should go to Sheffield diocese.
Seems to me an eminently sensible set of recommendations, all in all.