Issue - meetings

To request approval for expenditure to respond to a request from the Secretary of State, should it be made, that proposals be put forward for a review of local government structures in Nottinghamshire.

The Committee consider the Devolution and Local Government structure reform report.

It was noted that District Councils and Nottingham City Council had request, to the Secretary of State, that a unitary authority not be the only option considered for the Devolution and Local Government Reform.

1.    RECOMMENDED to the Finance and Resources Committee that a supplementary estimate of up to £30,000, if necessary, be established for the commissioning of work required in connection with a review of local government structures in Nottinghamshire.

2.     RESOLVED to Write to the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Leaders of Rushcliffe and Gedling Borough Councils stating the objection of any encroachment of the Nottingham City Council’s boundaries into the surrounding districts.