Have a say on council decisions

RESIDENTS who want to give their views on an item on a West Lancashire Borough Council agenda are being reminded that they have that chance.

People living in West Lancashire have the chance to speak on certain agenda items at council meetings where important decisions are made that affect people across the borough.

In addition to those arrangements already in place for speaking at Planning and Licensing Committees, there is also an opportunity to speak on items being considered at meetings of Cabinet, Audit and Governance Committee, Standards Committee and Overview and Scrutiny Committees. Dates of forthcoming meetings are: Cabinet, Tuesday, June 13, 7pm Audit & Governance Committee, Tuesday, June 27, 6.30pm

Executive Overview & Scrutiny Committee, Thursday, June 29 7pm

Corporate & Environmental Overview & Scrutiny Committee, Thursday, July 13 7pm

Agendas for these meetings will be published on the council’s website www. westlancs.gov.uk in the week preceding the meeting.

For example the agenda for the June Cabinet meeting will be published on Monday, June 5.

To request to speak, members of the public must contact Member Services with their request by 5pm on the Thursday of the week preceding the meeting.

For example a request to speak at June Cabinet must reach us by 5pm on Thursday, June 8.

The request can be submitted by email to member.services@westlancs.gov.uk or by sending to: Member Services, West Lancashire Borough Council, 52 Derby Street, Ormskirk, West Lancashire, L39 2DF.

Full details of the arrangements are provided in the council’s Public Speaking Protocol which can be found at www. westlancs.gov.uk/speak.

Terry Broderick, who heads up the council’s Legal and Democratic Services teams, said: “The council provides services for people living and working in the borough and the opinions of local people about those services are really important to us.”