Decision details
2025/26 Ward Schemes Batch 20
Decision Maker: Director of Housing and Communities
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
Budgets are made available to wards in the
form of a single, integrated pot that wards can use flexibly to
help address their priorities and to develop community initiatives
which benefit residents. The budgets may be used to give grants or
to buy services which contribute to the Council Plan priorities
of
• Equality of Opportunity
• Affordability
• Climate Change
• Health and Wellbeing
and are considered by ward committees who make recommendations to
support an officer decision.
Comments/Observations:
All ward committee decisions are now on open data as distinct data
sets and are updated monthly.
Decision:
To approve the ward funding decisions in the annex to this
report
Options Considered:
• Approve all the spending
recommendations by the wards.
• Decline all the spending recommendations by the wards
• Approve in part the recommendations by wards
• Decline in part the recommendations by the wards
Options Rejected:
• Decline all the spending
recommendations by the wards
• Approve in part the recommendations by wards
• Decline in part the recommendations by the wards
Publication date: 02/03/2026
Date of decision: 02/03/2026
Accompanying Documents: