Agenda

To elect a chair of Council for the municipal year 2025/26.

To appoint a vice-chair of Council for the municipal year 2025/26.

To record apologies for absence.

To adopt and sign as a correct record the Council minutes of the meetings held on 12 and 19 February 2025. 

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests, other registrable interests and non-registrable interests or any conflicts of interest in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting. 

To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chair. 

To consider the report of the head of legal and democratic on the appointment to those committees required to be politically balanced together with the  Climate Emergency Advisory Committee and the Licensing Acts Committee.

To consider the recommendations of the Cabinet member for policy and programmes, made on 2 May 2025, regarding the neighbourhood plan for Wantage following the referendum held on 1 May 2025.

The Individual Cabinet Member Decision is available here.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

1. To make the Wantage Neighbourhood Development Plan, so that it becomes part of the council’s development plan.

2. To authorise the head of policy and programmes, in consultation with the Cabinet member for policy and programmesand in agreement with the Qualifying Body – Wantage Town Council, to correct any spelling, grammatical, typographical or factual errors together with any improvements from a presentational perspective.

To receive the report of the leader of the council. 

No questions were submitted from councillors. 

No motions have been submitted from councillors.