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Swindon planning committee will elect new chairman next week

Cabinet changes mean votes for new chair on two committees

Vera Tomlinson has stepped down Changes in the ruling Conservative cabinet mean there will be a shake-up in some of the Swindon Borough Council s most important committees. The elevation of Tim Swinyard to the cabinet position with responsibility for levelling up means the planning committee will have to elect a new chairman. With 10 Conservative members and five Labour, Coun Swinyard’s successor is likely to be a Conservative. The retirement of long-serving councillor Vera Tomlinson means the licensing committee will need a new chairman – and vice chairman Vinay Manro, who chaired such panels over the last year, is the favourite to step up for the job.

New cabinet member for levelling up out to make sure council works for all of Swindon

Coun Swinyard is now responsible for levelling up, communities and place in Swindon’s Conservative-run council. Under that title comes tasks such as improving living standards, making sure the council’s services work as it recovers from the pandemic, setting welfare and benefits policy, giving direction to make sure there the vocational and higher education opportunities needed for the future, raising school attainment, and improving the quality of housing and other buildings through the borough. Coun Swinyard, who has been the chairman of the planning committee for two years, said: “The job is basically about improving lives, allowing people, to improve their own lives and lot and making sure all parts of the community, especially those who might have felt in the past they didn’t have the support they needed to get that.

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