In her latest column, Tameside Council leader Councillor Brenda Warrington explains more about the consultations currently ongoing which the borough's residents can take part in.
In Tameside we believe that all of our residents should get the opportunity to have their say on our projects and priorities. In the last few months alone we’ve held consultations on our Budget and new Community Safety Strategy, as well as Greater Manchester-wide issues such as Clean Air and Minimum Standards for Licensed Vehicles.
As we start looking to build back fairer and better after the coronavirus pandemic in Tameside, it is more important than ever that we make our residents feel like every decision is made ‘with’ them instead of ‘to’ them. In that spirit, I want to highlight the local consultations we have open at this moment in time.
• Active Tameside Survey - closes March 26, 2021 - Active Tameside manages leisure services on behalf of Tameside Council. In recent years we have invested heavily in our local facilities, including the iTrain gym and the Tameside Wellness Centre. Unfortunately the coronavirus pandemic and decisions on government funding have severely impacted local authority finances, and difficult choices must now be made to produce a balanced budget for next year. We’ve undertaken a Sport and Leisure Review, which has come back with proposals for cost-saving measures to secure the financial sustainability of our leisure estate. We want to hear your views on how these changes might affect you, and how we can keep delivering health and well-being services to residents.
• Tameside Ward Boundaries Consultation - closes April 5, 2021 - The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) is an independent organisation which guarantees that every councillor represents approximately the same number of residents in each ward. This ensures that everybody has fair representation and equal access to democracy.
A boundary review is currently being carried out in Tameside, which may end up considering proposals to change the boundaries of electoral wards in the borough. You have until April 5 to tell us what you’d like to see happen.
The LGBCE will then consider all responses with the intention of holding further consultations on their draft recommendations in June. These will be approved and finalised by November, with the new arrangements coming into effect at the local elections in 2023.
If any of these consultations are of interest to you, don’t hesitate visit our website at https://www.tameside.gov.uk/thebigconversation and have your say.
By taking part, you will be helping to plot the course of our shared future as we move into the post-coronavirus world.
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