0000112817 00000 n Council Structure Job Description Person Specification Appointments Procedure. Geoff Driver issued the warning after reports suggested that plans for elected mayors and a huge shake-up of local government in various parts of England had been kicked into the long grass – or maybe even buried beneath it. This means that the Council is open minded about how to achieve savings. Burnley (/ ˈ b ɜːr n l i /) is a town in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. B. Organisation Code – this is a URI that identifies the council. It has also been reported that there will be just one limited round of devolution deals, involving only three areas – one of which will be Cumbria. Also a breakdown of the individual teams within the council also including the names and contact details including telephone numbers of all of the team members for each area. 0000104259 00000 n 0000002497 00000 n startxref “We now have to cut the bone, because there is no flesh left on top of it – as it stands, we are £15m short [for the rest of this financial year] and that has the potential to rise by another £10m. The monthly gatherings have not taken place since and appear to be permanently paused. 0000003910 00000 n endstream endobj 20 0 obj <>/Metadata 3 0 R/Pages 2 0 R/StructTreeRoot 5 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 21 0 obj <. After the 2017 Lancashire County Council election, the council is under Conservative control, having been under no overall control from 2013–17 and under Conservative control from 2009-13. The Council is based on a Cabinet structure with 5 Portfolios, a Leader and 4 Executive portfolio holders; there are 4 committees including 1 scrutiny committee. 0000089693 00000 n Green party county councillor Gina Dowding – also speaking on behalf of independent members – said that “very few areas” will be able to demonstrate the broad and deep support for reorganisation now seemingly required by the government. According to 2019 figures (listed here) the percentage of BAME employees at Burnley Council was 7.8. Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England.It consists of 84 councillors. Lancashire Combined Authority. West Lancashire Council leader Ian Moran said any move towards council reorganisation requires more involvement from the public, not just the county’s politicians. 0000000016 00000 n Political management structure. 0000112554 00000 n He added: “The government believes that areas moving to unitary status with more sustainable and efficient councils can have significant benefits for local people and businesses.”, Owner of torched Burnley bar backs Time's Up campaign ahead of emotional re-opening, Tributes for 'truly amazing' former owner of popular Burnley roadside diner who has died at the age of 71, Excitement as Clitheroe beauty spot set to open to the public next week, Why Piers Morgan has let me down | Rebecca Jane, Neighbourhood Plan for Colne maps out future housing sites in town, Multi award-wining Ribble Valley restaurant is latest casualty of coronavirus pandemic, Burnley men remanded over attempted murder shooting charge, This website and its associated newspaper are members of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). “All our energy and efforts should be going into fighting Covid-19, not shuffling deckchairs,” County Cllr Whipp said. 0000001644 00000 n However, it has now been suggested that the government will only consider pressing ahead with its plans in areas where there is “broad and deep support” for the changes – a characterisation that hardly describes Lancashire’s fraught scramble for consensus on the issue. 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Pendle Council leader Mohammed Iqbal said that he believed that the apparent delay in the devolution process actually rendered it “dead and buried”. “You could then create a larger district council to take on those responsibilities – a Wyre and Fylde district authority, for example. I think Lancashire can agree a combined authority when the time comes, but reorganisation has got in the way,” he said. The Burnley Embankment is an embankment carrying the Leeds and Liverpool Canal across the Calder and Brun valleys in Burnley, Lancashire. Speaking shortly before the authority voted to write to the government rejecting County Hall’s three-unitary plan for Lancashire, he said: “Following the county council throwing its bottle out of the pram, [devolution] was as good as dead anyway. MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE Council services are delivered by approximately 613 employees, managed by 14 Heads of Service led by the Chief Executive and 4 Directors… 0000097099 00000 n A council manager from Burnley has spoken at a national conference to highlight bee-friendly practice in the borough. The combined authority would draw its membership from these newly-streamlined “unitary” councils – whereas under the current arrangements, 15 council leaders would each have a seat at the top table. burnley.co.uk Applicant Information Planning Team Manager 1 Welcome from the Head of Housing & Development Control In and Around Burnley Our Vision and Values Our Strategic Objectives Strategic Plan Partnership Working Management Structure Council Structure Job Description Person Specification Appointments Procedure Placing this on each row allows the data to be mixed with data from other councils. 0000103837 00000 n “The county council could devolve to the districts more control over the local services people really care about –gully-cleaning, for instance – to go with the things we already look after like keeping the parks looking nice and emptying the bins. “All local authorities need to be working together, 100 percent committed to fighting this disease. 0000093432 00000 n County council leader Geoff Driver has written to the government suggesting the creation of three new standalone local authorities – “Central Lancashire” (based on the footprints of Preston, Chorley, South Ribble and West Lancashire councils), “North West Lancashire” (Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre, Lancaster and Ribble Valley) and “East Pennine Lancashire” (Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Rossendale, Hyndburn and Pendle). CHIEF EXECUTIVE Mick Cartledge Lukman Patel CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Finance & Property Asad Mushtaq People & Development Heather Brennan Streetscene 0000089580 00000 n There is limited room for manoeuvre when it comes to reorganising Lancashire’s council structure, because of stipulations already laid down by the government over what it will accept. The government now needs to fund councils properly to deal with the pandemic until such time as they decide to resurrect reorganisation and a combined authority,” Cllr Iqbal said. This page documents political party strengths in the United Kingdom's principal local authorities (commonly known as local councils). It will pursue joint working arrangements, or seek to outsource services to the private sector, where there is a clear business case. This will become useful as we move towards the Semantic Web. Also known as the Straight Mile, the embankment is 1,256 yards (0.714 mi; 1.148 km) long and the canal runs up to 60 feet (18 m) above the valley floor. Karen has worked in Further Education since starting as a part time Computing Lecturer at Burnley College in 1986. MHCLG minister Lord Greenhalgh said that the government had set out a “clear commitment to level up all areas of the country by empowering our regions through devolving money, resources and control away from Westminster”. CHIEF EXECUTIVE Mick Cartledge CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Lukman Patel Finance Asad Mushtaq People & Development Heather Brennan Streetscene Joanne Swift “It seems that the county councils have been given information and a deadline [for submissions] that we weren’t. Council structure. xref The Conservative leader said that he would be writing to the government with an appeal not to the devolution agenda run aground. Council to set its budget commitments for coming year. It was only three weeks ago that County Hall sent a blueprint to ministers making the case for a combined authority, elected mayor and sweeping changes to Lancashire’s local government landscape – with a proposal to scrap every council in the county and create three replacements. 0000101055 00000 n Council Structure The Borough is divided into 15 wards with three councillors representing each ward – making a total of 45 councillors. It is 21 miles (34 km) north of Manchester and 20 miles (32 km) east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.. Our vision, values, aims and objectives. 1. The Council is not ideologically committed to a specific model of local government organisation.