The Notice of Public Rights for 2023/24 can be viewed here. The unaudited Annual Governance Statement for 2023/24 can be viewed here and the Accounting Statements can be viewed here.
The Annual Internal Audit Report 2023/24 can be viewed here, together with the explanations here and the full written report to the Council here.
The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 is issued to meet the government's desire to place more power into citizens' hands to increase democractic accountability. It will make it easier for local people to contribute to the local decision making process and help shape public services.
You can see a full copy of the Local Government Transparency Code 2015. The data on this page is published under The Open Government Licence.
There are seven classes of information which must be made available to the public.
Class 1 - Who makes up the council and their roles:
Class 2 - What the council spends and how it spends it:
Class 3 - The council's priorities and its progress
Finance & General Purposes Committee
Planning Committee
Foreshore Committee
Playing Field, Cemetery & Street Management Committee
Class 4 - How the council makes decisions:
Class 5 - The council's policies and procedures - follow link
Class 6 - Lists and Registers (any publicly available):
Class 7 - The Council's Services - Information about the services concerning, for example:
The seven classes of information above, do not include:
If a council does not hold the type of information in one of the classes, it will no be in breach of any statutory obligations under the 2000 Act.
Ensuring that the public can access the information via the council's Publication Scheme is vital. A council's publication scheme must confirm how much the information in the seven classes can be accessed and if there is a charge.
Part 2 of the Code is recommended practice for parish councils whose gross annual income or expenditure (whichever is the higher) does not exceed £6.5 million.
Information to be published quarterly:
Information to be publised Annually:
Community Infrastructure Levy reporting: