Retrospective video note, added to the site on 27 September 2026. The clip is from the Lancashire Combined County Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee of 28 July 2025, which considered the key decision threshold, and was uploaded to YouTube on 25 August 2025.
Reform UK county councillor Tom Pickup questioned the Lancashire Combined County Authority’s £500,000 key-decision threshold. He asked whether lowering it would give members more opportunity to scrutinise spending decisions.
Council On 3 September the Reform cabinet at County Hall added £10m to this year's highways maintenance budget, funded through the council's Efficiency Review. It takes investment in Lancashire's roads in 2026/27 to £88.9m.
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Council On 1 October Lancashire's cabinet agreed Better Care, Better Lives as the model for adult social care: help earlier, closer to home, built around what people told the council. Burnley's Cllr Tom Pickup is the Cabinet Member responsible.
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Campaigns Burnley Council is consulting on bringing small HMO conversions under planning control in the six wards that still lack it. That would cover the whole borough, as our July motion asked. The consultation closes on 6 November.
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