Member

If successful, the fatal Motions would impact councils’ ability to deliver on the mayoral elections in 2026 and deprive the people in those areas of the powers and funding that they should have. It would not be possible to do this at such a pace when also holding the 2025 local elections in those areas. Councils were invited to make their case, and we considered requests for elections to be postponed until May 2026 only where it was clear this would be necessary to deliver the significant amount of work needed to unlock devolution and deliver reorganisation to the fastest possible timescale.