Responsibilities
The mayor and other Combined Authority members work together to grow the region’s economy, attract investment, and create new jobs and opportunities for local people.
The mayor provides overall leadership, including chairing Combined Authority meetings, but all Combined Authority members can support and advise the mayor in exercising mayoral functions.
The mayor has responsibility over -
- Functional power of competence
- Housing and planning with the power to -
- designate a Mayoral Development Area and set up a Mayoral Development Corporation
- use housing and land acquisition powers to support housing regeneration, development, wellbeing and growth
- Finance - the mayor can set a precept on council tax to fund mayoral functions. They have the power to charge a business rate supplement. This charge is subject to ballot
- Transport - with a local transport plan and strategies
No constituent council functions are removed from the councils. This is other than with transport functions. Existing functions and resources already held by the constituent authorities will be shared with the mayor and combined authority. These must be agreed by the constituent councils.
