Forward plan
This page shows the decisions coming up at Cabinet and Full Council, and how you can have your say before they're made.
Some items in the Forward Plan may be looked at first by the Treasury Management Review Panel or the Overview and Scrutiny Committee. These groups review the proposals and may make recommendations before they go to Cabinet or Full Council for a final decision.
Want to have your say?
You can share your views on any item in the plan by writing up to the day of the meeting. Contact the lead officer named against each item, or our Democratic Services team by email or phone 01562 732763.
View the current Foward Plan
We update the plan every month. It looks ahead by four months and tells you what decisions are planned, when they'll be made, and who to contact.
Need a copy from an earlier date? Contact Democratic Services on 01562 732763, and we'll help you find it. The Forward Plan is also available for Public Inspection at Wyre Forest House. It also identifies who, if anyone, will be consulted before the decision is taken.
What is in the Forward Plan?
The Forward Plan covers key decisions, decisions significant enough to require advance public notice. By law, we must publish these at least 28 days before a decision is made.
A key decision involves spending or saving £75,000 or more, and/or affects communities across two or more wards (or one large ward).
Each item in the plan will tell you what the decision is, who will make it, when it is expected to be made, and what documents will be considered. You can also ask to see any supporting documents, as long as they don't contain exempt or confidential information.
What about reports that are kept private (exempt reports)
Local authorities are required to specify 28 clear days in advance of a Cabinet meeting, reports that are likely to contain exempt information and result in the public and press being asked to leave the meeting for the consideration of that item or part of that item.
The law specifies the grounds upon which local authorities can exclude the press and public but these tend to be on matters about a person, information that would reveal their identity, contract matters that could reveal commercially sensitive information, consultations or negotiations relating to make relations, or information in connection with or preventing and detecting crime. The full list of exempt categories ease set out below.
- Information relating to any individual
- Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual
- Information related to the financial or business affairs of a particular person (including the authority holding that information)
- Information relating to any consultations or negotiations, in connection with any Labour relations matters arising between the authority or a Minister of the Crown and employees of all officeholders under the authority
- Information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings
- Information which reveals that the authority proposes to give under any enactment a notice under or by virtue of which requirements are imposed on a person; or to make an order or direction under any enactment
- Information relating to any action taken or to be taken in connection with the prevention, investigation or prosecution of crime
Information falling within the above categories is exempt information if, and so long as, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
Any reports that are likely to fit into the above categories are listed at the end of this document. The list will specify the paragraph that will require the press and public to be excluded, where relevant. Each report refers to the date on which it is expected to be considered by the Cabinet. It will be made clear where the date is not known.
If you wish to make representations in relation to parts of the meeting being held in private, you can contact Democratic Services on 01562 732763 or email committee.section@wyreforestdc.gov.uk. At least five clear days before the meeting, the Council will publish on its website details of any representations received about why the meeting should be open to the public and the statements of the Council’s response.
Who to contact
Each item in the Forward Pan lists the lead officer you can contact directly. You can also contact our Cabinet members and Chief Officers.
- Find contact details for all our Cabinet Members on our council democratic structure page.
- Find Chief Officers' contact details on our Chief Officers' information page.