The first meeting of the new East Midlands Combined County Authority took place, bringing together leadership from Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The council will oversee more than two billion pounds of annual funding and focus on key areas such as transport, skills and education, housing, and reaching net zero. A directly-elected mayor will eventually govern the council.
Councillors called for unity across political divides and representation for rural areas, alongside cities, in the first meeting of a new East Midlands super council . The first meeting of the new East Midlands Combined County Authority, making decisions on behalf of more than two million people, took place in Chesterfield Town Hall today (March 19).
This new council brings together leadership from Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire to oversee more than two billion pounds of annual funding given to the new council directly from central Government over the next 30 years. Its funding focuses on key areas devolved from Government including transport, skills and education, housing and brownfield land supply, and reaching net zero, with £2 million to spent setting up small projects over the next couple of months. A directly-elected mayor will eventually govern the new super council from May with a public vote for that post to take place on Thursday, May 2, with longer-term budgets, plans and strategies to be formed following their appointment. Cllr Barry Lewis, leader of Derbyshire County Council, was voted to chair the first meeting, backed by Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council leaders Cllr David Mellen and Cllr Ben Bradle
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