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*COVID-19 update for Council and Committee meetings

Regulations allow Committees to meet in virtual form online. Following Council approval on 13 October 2020, all meetings of the Council, its Committees and Sub-Committees will take place virtually until May 2020, subject to the prevailing public health situation.

The Response and Recovery Committee, established on 19 May this year, will continue to operate. It will discharge the functions of the Finance and Regeneration and Community and Engagement Committees, determine matters related to the Council’s Covid 19 response and determine any urgent matter which falls within the remit of another Strategic Committee. The Culture, Housing, Environment & Planning Committee has been established to discharge the functions of the Environment and Sustainable Transport and Place and Culture Committees for the remainder of the 2020/21 Municipal Year. Meetings of the Children’s and Adult’s Care and Education Committee will resume. 

Regulatory Committees including Development Control Committee, Neighbourhood Planning-Sub Committees and Licensing Sub-Committees will also continue to take place virtually.

Prior to the regulations coming into effect, decisions were taken under emergency powers

See here for all decisions taken under special urgency powers and other officer decisions taken between March  - May 2020

All Council Committee meetings from 7 October 2020 are being streamed on the Council's Youtube Channel. 

If you cannot find a meeting link on these pages the meeting is being broadcast on the Youtube Channel here.

Please view meetings held between 5 May 2020 and 10 September 2020 hosted on the Council's Youtube Channel here.

The Council has been webcasting live coverage of most of its major meetings on this website since April 2017.

Recent meetings and those coming soon are displayed on this page. Simply click on the title of the meeting that you wish to view. You can also subscribe to notification reminders for future meetings.

If you miss a meeting live, or would like to watch it again, there is a catch up facility in the Webcast Library. Recordings are normally available to view online within an hour of the end of the live meeting and are stored for a period of 12 months. 

Confidential Information

The Council deals with as much business as possible in public session but occasionally it is necessary to discuss confidential information in private. When this happens live broadcasts will be temporarily suspended.

Viewing the webcasts

You will find links on each webcast to the agenda and reports for the meeting that you are watching which will give you useful information about the issues that are being discussed.

When you watch recorded meetings in the archive you are able to jump to a specific point or speaker in the meeting using the timeline on the right hand side of the screen.

Feedback

You can submit comments and feedback about the webcasts themselves - for example if you experienced any technical issues watching them - using the feedback form provided on each webcast page.