Decision details
Response to government consultation on local government reorganisation in Oxfordshire
Decision Maker: Executive
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To seek delegated authority to submit a
response to the government consultation titled "Proposals for local
government reorganisation in Oxfordshire"
Decisions:
Councillor Andy Graham, Leader of the Council, presented the item the purpose of which was to seek delegated authority for the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, to submit a response to the Government’s statutory consultation on the three proposed options submitted for Local Government Reorganisation for Oxfordshire and West Berkshire.
Councillor Graham reminded the meeting that he had alluded to the three structures proposed for a new Unitary Council in his earlier announcement and proposed accepting the recommendation of the report.
The alternative options detailed in the report were that the Executive could have decided not to submit a consultation response to the statutory consultation for Local Government Reorganisation in Oxfordshire and West Oxfordshire. To do so would have been inconsistent with the formal decisions taken in November 2025 to support and submit the proposal for a two unitary model for Local Government Reorganisation in response to the Secretary of State’s formal invitation to do so.
Councillor Duncan Enright, Deputy Leader of Council, seconded the proposal.
This was voted on and agreed unanimously.
The Executive resolved to:
1. Delegate authority to the Chief Executive Officer, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, to submit a response to the Government’s statutory consultation on Local Government Reorganisation for Oxfordshire and West Berkshire on behalf of West Oxfordshire District Council.
Report author: Mark Pritchard
Publication date: 13/03/2026
Date of decision: 11/03/2026
Decided at meeting: 11/03/2026 - Executive
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