District Matters

Councillor Susan JunedWelcome to District Matters, a column penned by the Leader of Stratford-on-Avon District Council, Councillor Susan Juned . Choose a date from below to read the most recent entries.

Please note: these columns have previously been published in the Stratford Herald newspaper.

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Ministers overriding our local decisions

(September 2025)

How much do Ministers and civil servants based in London know about the ‘real’ world of local government – let alone local communiti...

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Wanted: a vision for the future of local government

(August 2025)

Local councils are being pulled and pushed by the government at the moment, and that’s without the local government reorganisation that’s ...

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Local Government Reorganisation

(July 2025)

The way that local government works is changing. The Government published plans in December 2024 which will mean the end of district and county counci...

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Give Council powers to halt flooding

(June 2025)

Flooding - whether river, surface water or drainage from sewers, may not be at the forefront of everyone’s mind after one of the driest spring&r...

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Protecting services as we create new vision

(May 2025)

Across the Stratford District Council area, the County Council election results were good for the Liberal Democrats. We had wins in Alcester, Stour an...

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Last updated on 18/07/2024