{"id":1173,"date":"2025-06-05T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:00:46","slug":"wychavons-corporate-peer-challenge-feedback-and-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wychavons-corporate-peer-challenge-feedback-and-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wychavon\u2019s Corporate Peer Challenge Feedback and Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have your say on the biggest change to Worcestershire councils in 50 years and follow-up to Wychavon\u2019s Corporate Peer Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear all <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are writing to invite you to take part in our survey on local government reorganisation in Worcestershire and to share feedback from our Corporate Peer Challenge with you.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shape Worcestershire: local government reorganisation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you will be aware, the Government intends to sweep away all 21 two-tier council areas in England in favour of creating unitary councils. This represents the most significant change to how councils are structured, and services are delivered in the county in over 50 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are currently two options being considered for Worcestershire: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Replace all councils with one unitary council<\/strong>
    This would replace the county council and six district, city and borough councils with just one council for the whole of Worcestershire.\u00a0It would provide all services from collecting bins to school admissions. \u202fThe new council would geographically cover the same areas as Worcestershire County Council does now.\u202f\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Replace all councils with two unitary councils\u00a0<\/strong>
    This means the county would be split into two new councils with one for the north of the county and one for the south of the county. Each one would be responsible for all services in their part of the county.\u202f\u00a0

    Councillors will be asked in the autumn to decide which of the two options to work up in more detail and submit to the Government by 28 November 2025.\u00a0
    To support councillors to make this decision, we are seeking views from residents, town and parish councils, voluntary and community organisations, businesses and other partners we work with on how local services should be delivered in future.\u00a0\u00a0

    Our dedicated microsite www.shapeworcestershire.org<\/a><\/strong> has more information and a link to the survey, which is open until 29 June<\/strong>.\u00a0We encourage you to take part.\u00a0

    You can choose to either submit a single response on behalf of your parish or town council or share the survey link with individual councillors so they can respond personally as residents or submit both. The survey is open until 29 June, and we encourage as many of you as possible to take part.\u00a0

    As you know we are holding an event for Wychavon parish and town councils on local government reorganisation on Monday 23 June<\/strong>. I will send you more details about that separately. If there are particular aspects you would like us to cover during the event please let me know as soon as possible<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Wychavon\u2019s Corporate Peer Challenge feedback and action plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Some of your councils were involved in our Corporate Peer Challenge in October 2024. Earlier this year we received the peer team\u2019s feedback report setting out their findings and recommendations to help us progress from \u2018good to great\u2019. You can read the team\u2019s report on our website here Corporate Peer Challenge – Wychavon District Council<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We also wanted to share with you the action plan we have developed in response to the peer team\u2019s feedback and recommendations. You can read the action plan here<\/a>.<\/strong>
    The peer team will revisit us towards the end of September to assess our progress with implementing its recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Thank you once again to those who were part of our Peer Challenge and for your valuable contribution to the process. We hope you will all take the opportunity to contribute to the important conversation about the future of Worcestershire councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Kind regards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Tracy
    Tracy Perkins
    Engagement Officer
    01386 565517
    www.wychavon.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have your say on the biggest change to Worcestershire councils in 50 years and follow-up to Wychavon\u2019s Corporate Peer Challenge Dear all  We are writing to invite you to take part in our survey on local government reorganisation in Worcestershire… Read moreWychavon\u2019s Corporate Peer Challenge Feedback and Action Plan<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consultations","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropthorneparishcouncil.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}