OFFICER DECISION

 

 

Decision:   2025/26 Ward Schemes Batch 11

Decision Date: 29/08/2025

Type of Decision: Director                                      Key

 

    Non-Key

X

Portfolio Area that decision relates to:

Leader (inc Corporate Services, Policy, Strategy & Partnerships)

 

Environment and Climate Emergency

 

Economy & Transport

 

 

Finance, Performance, Major Projects & Equalities

 

Children, Young People and Education

 

Children, Young People & Education

 

Health, Wellbeing and Adults Social Care

 

Housing, Planning & Safer Communities

X

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.

 

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

 

Consultation Process:

Ward Councillors for affected wards

 

 

Implications

Crime & Disorder

 

 

Equalities

X

Highways

 

Human Resources

 

 

Legal

 

ICT

 

Financial

 

 

Affordability

 

Property

 

Climate Change

 

 

Health

 

Other

 

Environment

 

 

Human Rights

 

 

 

Implications Contact:

Mora Scaife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level of Risk: 01-03 Acceptable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wards Affected:


All Wards

 

Fishergate

 

Holgate

X

Rural West York

 

Acomb

 

Fulford & Heslington

 

Hull Road

 

Strensall

 

Bishopthorpe

 

Guildhall

 

Huntington & New Earswick

 

Westfield

X

Clifton

 

Haxby & Wigginton

 

Micklegate

X

Wheldrake

 

Copmanthorpe

 

Heworth

 

Osbaldwick & Derwent

 

 

Dringhouses & Woodthorpe

 

Heworth Without

 

Rawcliffe & Clifton Without

 

 

 

Comments/Observations:

 

 

Decision:

To approve the ward funding decisions in the annex to this report

 

Decision Made by: Pauline Stuchfield, Director of Housing and Communities

Contact Details:

On behalf of:

To be implemented by:

Mora Scaife

 

On Completion – Signed off by:

 

 

Date:

29/08/2025