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This is something that @tomcollinsworcs and Alan Amos were campaigning together for, depsite it asking for preferential treatment.
Tom Edwards ✍️​🎙️👨‍💻 (@tomedwardsbbchw) profile pictureTom Edwards ✍️​🎙️👨‍💻@tomedwardsbbchw19h
SPECIAL REPORT: Bid to offer NHS first refusal on County Hall plot in Worcester collapses - after bosses at @worcscc cite legal concerns around potential 'preferential treatment'👇bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pv…
Bid to offer NHS first refusal on County Hall in Worcester fails

Bid to offer NHS first refusal on County Hall in Worcester fails

Reform UK wanted the derelict Worcestershire County Hall to be used for a hospital expansion.

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Ashley Monk has joined the Conservatives on both Redditch Borough Council and Worcestershire County Council. The former Reform councillor had been an independent since May. worcestershiresource.news/as…
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CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE?: Bromsgrove and Redditch have cancelled their November planning committees. Both cite the National Scheme of Delegation, in force from 31 October.
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Transforming Worcestershire (joint two-unitary proposal, 27 Nov 2025): malvernhills.gov.uk/files/Do… Quote: "councillors closer to the communities they serve."
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BBC on the planning changes (1 Nov 2026): bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx7v…
Changes to local council planning systems come into force

Changes to local council planning systems come into force

The government says planning officers, rather than councillors, should decide most applications.

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MHCLG National Scheme of Delegation guidance: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Planning Committees and the National Scheme of Delegation of Planning Functions: Guidance for local...

Planning Committees and the National Scheme of Delegation of Planning Functions: Guidance for local...

This statutory guidance supports local planning authorities in England in implementing the national scheme of delegation for planning functions.

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Redditch Planning 12 Nov (CANCELLED): moderngovwebpublic.redditchb…
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Sources: Bromsgrove Planning 5 Nov (CANCELLED): moderngovwebpublic.bromsgrov…
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So the committees that would hear those applications are not sitting either.
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If decision making closer to the people were real, those call-ins and committees would still be there. Distance is what is increasing.
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🚨PARISH THE THOUGHT: Worcester City Council has launched a consultation on creating a new "City of Worcester Council", a parish council for the unparished city, to keep a local voice and the ceremonial Mayor once the city council is abolished.
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With parish councils available under either model, and the neighbourhood duty applying to every council, it raises the question of why "local voice" was ever treated as an argument for splitting Worcestershire in half.
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Sources: Future Worcester consultation: worcester.gov.uk/futureworce… Worcester News: worcesternews.co.uk/news/266… LGPIH Act 2007 s.87: legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200… s.86: legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200… EDCE Act 2026 s.62: legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/202… Minister's 29 Oct letter: assets.publishing.service.go… One Worcestershire bid: worcestershire.gov.uk/sites/…
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