Consultation
We want to know what you think about life in Tamworth and every year, we carry out consultation with you on issues such as litter, anti-social behaviour, local facilities, health, regeneration, housing and how your money is spent. This can be meetings, exhibitions, focus groups, questionnaire surveys and on-line forms.
Citizens Panel: This is a made up of local residents who we ask about local services. If you join, we will contact you three or four times a year with postal or online surveys to get your views. You may be invited to take part in a questionnaire, discussion groups or workshops. The results are then used to inform decisions about how we deliver our services.
Find out more: Complete our online registration form. Or Email: corporateconsultation@tamworth.gov.uk.
Current consultations:
Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme Consultation
Tamworth Borough Council is consulting on its Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme and is asking for feedback from the public. One amendment is proposed – that from April 2018, bereavement support payments are disregarded completely as income. It is also taking this opportunity to gauge opinion on the rest of the scheme which has been in operation since April 1st 2013.
The consultation runs until 10th November 2017. At the end of the consultation, all responses will be considered by the Cabinet and full Council will finalise the Local Council Tax Reduction scheme from April 2018.
Complete the Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme Consultation here.
Final consultation on review of parliamentary constituency boundaries
In 2016 the Boundary Commissions began a review of parliamentary constituency areas as part of a remit from Government to reduce the number of MPs across the UK from 650 to 600. This means the number of constituencies in England will be reduced by 32, from 533 to 501.
The Boundary Commission for England first published its proposals for how parliamentary boundaries could change in September 2016, which was followed by an in-depth consultation period with two phases.
The Commission has now published its revised proposals and opened them up to a final consultation period which ends on December 11, 2017. It will then report to Parliament in September 2018. Revised proposals take account of all written comments received during the previous two consultations and all oral comments made at public hearings.
In Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent, it is proposed that the number of constituencies will reduce from 12 to 11.
Changes have been suggested to the existing Tamworth and Lichfield constituencies to realign ward and constituency boundaries following changes to ward boundaries in Lichfield and to increase the overall size of the Tamworth electorate.
Currently the two wards of Hammerwich with Wall and Whittington & Streethay are split between Lichfield and Tamworth, but with most of the electorate in Lichfield. The proposals are to include the Whittington & Streethay ward wholly in the Tamworth constituency and to include the Hammerwich with Wall ward wholly in the Lichfield constituency. In essence this means Tamworth would lose a small section of the Hammerwich with Wall ward, while gaining electors overall from the Whittington & Streethay ward.
In its report, the Commission notes that this would make for a better boundary between the two constituencies.
Members of the public are being encouraged to view and comment on the proposals which are detailed in full online at www.bce2018.org.uk including maps of the existing and proposed constituency boundaries.
Paper copies of the plans and associated documents are also available to view in the reception of Tamworth Borough Council at Marmion House in Lichfield Street. Consultation ends on December 11, 2017.
