Bill Parks - Cllr for Wiltshire

Cllr Bill Parks

Conservative

Email: bill.parks@wiltshire.gov.uk

Council: Wiltshire

Council Profile: View on council website

Committees: Western Area Planning Committee (Committee Member) Finance and Procurement Seelct Committee (Substitute - Part II) Strategic Planning Committee (Substitute) Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee (Committee Member) Cabinet (Guest Part I) Environment Select Committee (Committee Member) Warminster Area Board (Committee Member) Council (Committee Member) Standards Committee

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Activity Timeline

Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.

53 meetings · Page 4 of 11

Environment Select Committee Committee Member

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.

September 09, 2025
Strategic Planning Committee Substitute

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.

August 05, 2025
Environment Select Committee Committee Member

Environment Select Committee - Thursday 31 July 2025 2.00 pm

July 31, 2025
Finance and Procurement Seelct Committee Substitute - Part II

Finance and Procurement Select Committee - Wednesday 30 July 2025 10.30 am

The Finance and Procurement Select Committee met to consider its work priorities and approach, and to review the financial year 2024/25 revenue and capital outturn positions, as well as the treasury management outturn position. The committee was also scheduled to discuss a member question regarding the council's levels of debt.

July 30, 2025
Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee Committee Member

Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee - Wednesday 23 July 2025 10.30 am

The Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee of Wiltshire Council met on 23 July 2025, to discuss the outline of the Council Plan 2025-2035, the priorities for the new Finance and Procurement Select Committee, and to set up a task group to review the MyWilts app. The committee also agreed to re-establish the Stone Circle Task Group.

July 23, 2025

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

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: 53

Average per Month: 2.1

Decisions Recorded: 9