Ceredigion is likely to have fewer councillors after next year’s the local elections.

Proposals to reduce the number of councillors in Ceredigion from 42 to 38 look set to be signed off by Welsh Government officials later this year, a council committee heard this week.

Members of the council’s democratic services committee agreed that once the order is made a cross party task and finish group will be set up to “consider the implications of a reduction of four councillors” and the impact on sustaining committees. Changes to the size of the governance and audit committee were also on the agenda with the possibility of a need to increase the number of independent lay members from May 2022.

Committee chairman Cllr Elizabeth Evans said that following discussion of the matter it was felt there was a need for around nine members because “we have struggled to be quorate previously.”

This would likely be made up of six county councillors and three lay members.