Democratic meetings

Calendar of meetings

You can find the dates for Full Council, Committees, sub-committees and working parties in the Council’s meeting calendar.

In the calendar, click on the meeting name to access the full details of that meeting, including agenda, papers and minutes. The decisions of a committee are recorded in the minutes.

Committee business and decisions

Use the links below to access the meeting dates for Full Council, the three decision-making Committees and the Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Click on a meeting date to access the agenda, papers and minutes for that meeting.

• Full Council
• Policy and Resources Committee
• Planning Committee
• Licensing Committee
• Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Access to meetings

For transparency, meetings of Full Council and Committees are open to the public.

To reduce risk to Councillors, Council staff and the public during COVID, meetings are being live-streamed so you can watch the meeting without attending in person. The live-stream link is available on the webpage for the meeting.

A recording is made of each Council and Committee meeting. The recording is available on the webpage for the meeting.

Some items on an agenda may be listed as exempt. These items are not discussed in public. Our Constitution sets out the rules around exempt items.

To find out how to ask the Council a question, visit the public participation in Council meetings page.

Public announcements about meetings

As a Council, we have to make a public announcement if we make changes to the date of a meeting or arrange any additional meetings. Any public announcements will be made here:

Risk assessments for democratic meetings

Whilst COVID restrictions are in place, we are taking special measures to make sure that democratic meetings are as safe as possible for the Councillors and Council staff who attend.

That includes doing risk assessments for the venues where we hold our meetings. We publish these risk assessments here.