Issue details
L-01-25: Submission to the Devolution Priority Programme
Wiltshire Council has been invited to make a submission for councils in the ‘Heart of Wessex’ to join the Devolution Priority Programme. A letter from leaders of the relevant councils to the Minister has been requested by 10 January 2025.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 31/12/2024
Decision due: Not before 9 Jan 2025 by Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Military-Civilian Integration, Health and Wellbeing, Economic Development, Arts, Heritage, and Tourism
Lead member: Cllr Richard Clewer, Leader of the Council richard.clewer@wiltshire.gov.uk
Lead director: Lucy Townsend
Department: Legal & Governance
Contact: David Bowater, Senior Corporate Manager, Email: david.bowater@wiltshire.gov.uk.
Consultation process
An extraordinary meeting of Full Council took place on 9 January 2025 seeking support for a submission.
Full Council supported the intention to write to the relevant Minister to seek inclusion in the Devolution Priority Programme by a vote of 65 to 7 in favour, with 1 abstention.
If accepted onto the Devolution Priority Programme widespread public consultation would take place on the establishment of a Mayoral Strategic Authority ahead of formal consent for its establishment.
Decisions