Cllr Bill Parks
Email: bill.parks@wiltshire.gov.uk
Council: Wiltshire
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Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
50 meetings · Page 3 of 10
Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee - Wednesday 24 September 2025 10.30 am
The Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee met to discuss a range of topics, including transformation, complaints, task group updates, and asset management. The committee agreed to note the proposed new Asset Management Strategy, and also the proposal to transfer the freehold of St Stephen's Place car park in Trowbridge to the adjoining owner of the Castle Place Shopping Centre.
Cabinet - Tuesday 16 September 2025 10.00 am
The Wiltshire Council cabinet met on 16 September 2025, and among the decisions made, the key topics discussed were the future of community based services, and a new approach to short breaks for children with additional needs. The cabinet also reviewed the financial position of the council, and agreed to land appropriations.
Environment Select Committee - Tuesday 9 September 2025 2.00 pm
The Environment Select Committee met to discuss the Waste Transformation Programme, air quality, and a local nature recovery strategy. They agreed to form a Waste Transformation Scrutiny Task Group and supported a draft air quality plan. The committee also reviewed a draft of the Wiltshire and Swindon Local Nature Recovery Strategy, designed to align efforts to improve biodiversity.
Extraordinary meeting, Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday 5 August 2025 10.30 am
The Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) met to discuss two planning applications. Outline permission for 300 homes south of Snarlton Farm in Melksham was refused due to conflict with the Wiltshire Core Strategy and the Joint Melksham Neighbourhood Plan. Outline permission was granted for 95 dwellings west of Marlborough Road in Royal Wootton Bassett, subject to a Section 106 agreement[^2] and planning conditions.
Environment Select Committee - Thursday 31 July 2025 2.00 pm
Decisions from Meetings
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Exclusion of the Press and Public
From: Cabinet - Tuesday 16 September 2025 10.00 am - September 16, 2025
...to exclude the press and public from the meeting for Item Number 14 due to the likely disclosure of exempt financial or business information, where withholding that information was deemed to be in the public interest.
Recommendations Approved
Future Commissioning of community based services
From: Cabinet - Tuesday 16 September 2025 10.00 am - September 16, 2025
Recommendations Approved
Financial Year 2025/26 - Quarter One Capital Budget Monitoring
From: Cabinet - Tuesday 16 September 2025 10.00 am - September 16, 2025
... to approve the virement of £0.175m to the Stonehenge School project and note additional budgets funded by grants and contributions, budget removals due to lower grant awards, budgets brought forward from future years, budgets reprogrammed to future years, the revised 2025/26 Capital Programme forecast, and the capital spend as of June 30, 2025.
Recommendations Approved
Financial Year 2025/26 - Quarter One Revenue Budget Monitoring
From: Cabinet - Tuesday 16 September 2025 10.00 am - September 16, 2025
...to approve the creation of a new earmarked reserve and a virement of funds, while noting a forecast revenue budget overspend, savings delivery performance, a net operating surplus on the HRA, receipt of grant funding, transfers from reserves, and an overspend against Dedicated Schools Grant budgets.
Recommendations Approved
Land Appropriation
From: Cabinet - Tuesday 16 September 2025 10.00 am - September 16, 2025
...to better align property use with appropriate holding powers, the Cabinet agreed to appropriate assets between the General Fund and the Housing Revenue Account, subject to necessary approvals, and to make corresponding accounting adjustments for the 2025/26 financial year.
For Determination
Summary
Meetings Attended: 50
Average per Month: 2.2
Decisions Recorded: 9