Decision Making at the Council

In this section you can access a wide range of information and documents relating to the council’s decision making processes, find out about forthcoming Council meetings and decisions and obtain details for your local political representatives.

The meetings of the Council’s committees are now being held in person. In some cases, a non-decision making meeting may be held remotely, where the committee chair, the Leader and the Chief Executive Officer are in agreement that this is in the best interests of the business of the committee.

Parish and Town Council Information

The details of the 731 Parish and Town Councils in North Yorkshire are in the process of being added to the new North Yorkshire Council website. Due to the large volume of information that needs to be entered, this will not all be accessible on the new North Yorkshire Council website from 1 April 2023. To access the details of Parish and Town Council clerks, councillors and registers of interest for the council in your area, please use the one of the following links:

Craven district council area

Harrogate borough council area

Hambleton district council area

Richmondshire district council area

Ryedale district council area

Scarborough borough council area

Selby district council area

If you have difficulty in accessing the information that you require via the links above, then please email democratic.services@northyorks.gov.uk

Live Meetings

The remote access, live broadcast meetings of the Council’s committees can be viewed via:Live meetings

Meetings of the Executive and of Full Council are routinely live broadcast and recorded.

How to get involved

Find out more about the Council's public participation scheme

It is also possible to subscribe to updates in order to receive information via e-mail regarding particular issues and committee meetings.

North Yorkshire Council Constitution

A full copy of the constitution can be found here Constitution

Executive Member and Corporate Director decisions

The records of decisions by Executive Members and Corporate Directors for the period March 2021 onwards are available to view here: Decisions

The records of decisions by Executive Members and Corporate Directors for the period January 2020 to February 2021 are available to view via the Library Archive

Notices of urgency, exempt information and call-in exemption

Access to information notices are published regarding:

Published notices are available to view as part of the associated forthcoming item for decision within the latest Forward Plan

Locality Budgets

Details of the funding allocations under the Councillor Locality Budget scheme for the years 2017/18 to 2021/22 are available here: Locality Budgets

Details of the funding allocations for 2022/23 onwards are available to view here Decisions

To view documents in pdf format you will require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software.