Our community engagement strategy

Councils are at the heart of local democracy. It is therefore essential the entire community are given the opportunity to have their say on the services they need and use.  

Our Community Engagement Strategy builds on the positive work currently being done and sets out what we mean by engagement, why we are committed to engaging with our communities and partners and how we plan to engage now and in the future.  

We seek to embed community engagement into everyday working practices as we recognise that engagement should not be a one-off activity but provide the fundamental basis of everything we do.

Our Community Engagement strategy also reflects our commitment to The Localism Act which requires local partners to work together and with communities to develop services that are relevant and delivered at the most local level possible.