{"id":325421,"date":"2025-12-19T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325421\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:25:07","slug":"thames-valley-councils-seek-mayoral-devolution-from-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325421\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames Valley councils seek mayoral devolution from government"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 13 councils that are part of the discussion are:<\/p>\n

Bracknell Forest Council<\/p>\n

Cherwell District Council<\/p>\n

Oxford City Council<\/p>\n

Oxfordshire County Council<\/p>\n

Reading Borough Council<\/p>\n

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead<\/p>\n

Slough Borough Council<\/p>\n

South Oxfordshire District Council<\/p>\n

Swindon Borough Council<\/p>\n

Vale of White Horse District Council<\/p>\n

West Berkshire Council<\/p>\n

West Oxfordshire District Council<\/p>\n

Wokingham Borough Council.<\/p>\n

Five of Oxfordshire’s Lib Dem MPs previously backed the inclusion of Buckinghamshire<\/a> but the area is not included in the current expression of interest.<\/p>\n

Swindon prefers to join the Thames Valley MSA, although it is not in its geographical patch.<\/p>\n

Oxford City Council previously said<\/a> Swindon would make the proposition for a Thames Valley MSA even stronger, while the county council said it made more sense for it to look to the west and south for partners.<\/p>\n

The leaders’ letters said that a Thames Valley MSA would be “a strategic platform from which to go further and faster on pan-regional collaboration with our neighbours”, such as the Oxford – Cambridge Corridor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Council discussions will now continue with development of detailed proposals in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 13 councils that are part of the discussion are: Bracknell Forest Council Cherwell District Council Oxford City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-325421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}