West Suffolk Council
will be created on 1 April 2019. Its ‘shadow
council’ is made up of the 72 councillors of Forest Heath
District and St Edmundsbury Borough
Councils and will remain operational alongside Forest Heath and St
Edmundsbury for the time-being;
however, from 1 April 2019, the Shadow
Council will take over all the powers and functions of Forest Heath
and St Edmundsbury until 6 May 2019.
You can find out who the councillors are on
the Councillors pages.
All Councillors meet together
as the Shadow Council. The Shadow
Council is chaired by a Chairman and neither the Chairman nor the
Vice-Chairman has any Shadow Executive
(Cabinet) responsibilities. Meetings of
the Shadow Council are normally open to the public. There are certain things the law says only the
full Shadow Council can decide. Other
matters are decided by the Shadow Executive (Cabinet), which is
held to account by the Shadow Scrutiny Committee. The Shadow
Council has no Regulatory Committees as it has no regulatory
functions.