Full Council consists of all the 46 elected councillors. Full Council meetings are scheduled to take place normally five times a year.

Members of the public are welcome to ask public questions about Council business and policy at Council meetings. Further information about public questions can be found on the page “Taking part in the democratic process”.

All 46 councillors meet to take the major budgetary and policy framework decisions. The Council must consider certain high-level strategic plans. These are:

·        Local Performance Plan

·        Community Strategy

·        Education Development Plan

·        Local Development Framework

The annual revenue and capital budgets will be prepared by the Cabinet, consulted upon, reflected in the Forward Plan and then considered and approved by the full Council at the Budget Council meeting in February each year. This sets the level of Council Tax for the forthcoming Municipal Year (May - April).

(Audio Recordings of the meeting – Please note that due to the large size of the audio file you may want to download it first onto your PC/laptop by right clicking on the file, select “target as” and save the audio file onto the computer.  Then the audio file can be played off the computer and you can fast forward to the desired time of the meeting.)