Most of the region’s council meetings have been postponed because of the death of the Queen – although one local authority is pressing ahead with some. While Bristol City and Bath & North East Somerset councils, along with the West of England Combined Authority (Weca) and health and fire chiefs, have suspended their public committees during the period of national mourning, South Gloucestershire Council is holding its regulatory services meetings as usual.
This includes three licensing sub-committee hearings for cabbies, held in private, and the learning difficulties partnership board, all on Tuesday (September 13), as well as the development management committee which will be considering planning applications on Thursday (September 15). All of these have a remit to be non-political.
Two community engagement forum meetings – Yate and Severnside – scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday respectively have been called off, as has the safer and stronger communities strategic partnership because it would clash with the day of the Queen’s funeral on Monday, September 19. Bristol City Council announced last Friday that all public meetings would be postponed while the city remains in mourning, including full council which has now been moved from Tuesday evening (September 13) to 2pm on Thursday, September 29, preceded by the rearranged meeting of member forum at 12.30pm.
