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Your Council
Residents at one of our public meetings asked how they can hold the Council to account. It depends on where a decision is actually being made, so here's a quick guide to how Stockport Council works.
How decisions get made
A lot of decisions are made locally at Area Committee level, but strategic, financial and embedded issues are voted on at Full Council. Every few months, all 63 Stockport councillors meet at the Town Hall to pass items, including decisions on the Council's strategic direction through the Policy Framework and Budget.
Stockport operates a Cabinet model, so plenty of issues sit at the door of an individual Cabinet Member to resolve. Sorting these out takes leadership willing to intervene, and that's where holding the Council to account and influencing policy really happens.
How the ECA holds the Council to account
We use Full Council meetings to hold Cabinet Members to account and try to pass and influence policy where possible. We also encourage residents to attend the Town Hall themselves and submit public questions, since that's how we hold the Liberal Democrat administration to account on the things that affect Edgeley.
If you'd like to ask a public question at an upcoming Full Council meeting, you can submit one directly to the Council, or get in touch with us first if you'd like a hand with it.
Watch or attend a meeting
The two meeting types most relevant to Edgeley are the Council Meeting and the Central Stockport Area Committee, which covers local planning and other decisions for our part of the borough. Each of those Council pages has the agenda, membership and details on how to watch the live webcast.
Both are open for anyone to attend in person at the Town Hall. Most committee meetings are also webcast live and stay available to watch afterwards for 12 months if you can't make it in person.
We list upcoming Full Council and Central Stockport Area Committee dates on our events calendar.