Victory for Local Democracy

Tuesday 5th April 2011 will be remembered as the day that Conservative Councillors succeeded in ending the 'top down' approach to how local government makes its decisions.

Thanks to the efforts of the Conservative led coalition and our local Conservative Councillors, the Liberal Democrat administration in the Council agreed the creation of three new strategic committees which will take over the legal powers of the Executive.

The proposal will now be debated at Full Council on April 27th. If agreed the new committee structure will give Councillors on all sides a greater opportunity to engage in the decision making process of the Borough.

Power will no longer be centralised with a small delegation of councillors, thus enabling the views of all councillors and the residents they serve to be voiced.