Decision details
2025/26 Ward Schemes Batch 21
Decision Maker: Director of Housing and Communities
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
Background / Decision Summary:
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: 10/03/2026
Date of decision: 10/03/2026
Accompanying Documents: