Committee structure
Full Council
Full Council is made up of all 48 elected Councillors. It is responsible for setting the policy and budget framework for the authority; approving plans and strategies; and setting the authority's strategic vision and corporate objectives.
Standing Committees and Sub-Committees
The Council operates a committee system of governance, with the following cross-party Standing Committees and Sub-Committees covering the range of the authority’s functions:
- Adult Social Care, Children's Services and Education Committee
- Housing, Neighbourhoods and Leisure Committee
- Mapledurham Playing Fields Trustees Sub-Committee (until May 2022)
- Policy Committee
- Strategic Environment, Planning and Transport Committee
- Traffic Management Sub-Committee
- Trustees' Sub-Committee
Regulatory Committees
The following Committees have been appointed by the Council to exercise its regulatory functions.
- Licensing Applications Committee
- Licensing Applications Sub-Committee
- Planning Applications Committee
Other Committees
Consultative Bodies
- Access and Disabilities Working Group
- Arts & Heritage Forum
- Cleaner Air & Safer Transport Forum
- Cycle Forum
- Older People's Working Group
- Safer Reading Neighbourhood Forum
- Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education
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