Full Council meetings are normally held on the third Thursday of each month, starting at 7pm. Additionally, the first three months of 2021 will see the trialling of an additional meeting of the full Council dealing only with planning and planning enforcement matters. This is because the volume of business each month has been growing to the extent that it has become difficult to deal effectively with it in the space of one meeting. The Planning Meeting will be held at 7pm on the day after the Thursday meeting. If the trial is considered successful, the practice will continue throughout the year.

Until further notice, all meetings will be hosted on the Zoom video-conferencing platform.

The dates for 2021 meetings are as follows:

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
21	18	18	15	20	17	15	19	23	21	18	16
22	19	19	16*	21*	18*	16*	20*	24*	22*	19*	17*

(Note that the September meetings are on the fourth Thursday and Friday of the month).

* These dates are dependent on whether the three-month trial is continued beyond March.

All agendas will be published below at least three days prior to the date of the meeting.

All meetings will include an opportunity for members of the public to make representations and give evidence on any item appearing on the agenda for that meeting.
No member of the public may speak for longer than three minutes, at the discretion of the Chairman.

As long as meetings are being held on the Zoom platform, each meeting will be recorded by the Council.
The recording will be deleted following the ratification of the minutes for that meeting (usually one month later).

PJ Howson
Clerk to the Council