In this section you can access a wide range of information and documents relating to the Council’s decision making processes, find out about forthcoming Council meetings and decisions and obtain details for your local political representatives.
Information regarding Council, Cabinet and Committee meetings. You can find the agendas, minutes of previous meetings, as well as officer reports discussed at previous meetings. Information is also provided on dates of future meetings, and issues that will be discussed in future.
Our most important meetings, including Full Council, Cabinet, Scrutiny Boards and Planning Committee meetings are broadcast live on our Meetings channel.
If you have missed a scheduled meeting you can catch up on demand by viewing our library on the meetings channel, or for meetings between March 2020 to March 2022 on YouTube
The Council supports the principles of openness and transparency; it allows filming, recording and taking photographs at its meetings that are open to the public. It also allows the use of social networking websites (such as Twitter and Facebook) and blogging to communicate with people about what is happening, as it happens. Guidance for the press and public on attending and reporting meetings can be found using the Library link to the right of this page
Details of this Council’s MPs and Councillors.
Contact details for the Council's representatives on outside bodies and forums that are independent from the Council.
Information regarding the decisions taken by Cabinet, Committees, etc, as well as officer delegated decisions taken by council officers.
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