Issue - meetings

In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relevant to the work of the meeting. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.

Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide three clear working days’ notice, in writing, in order for an informed answer to be given.

Mr Steve Dempsey of the Styal Village Association expressed his strong support for a parish council for Styal. In this respect, he felt that the use of the term ‘town council’ for all options for community governance in the unparished areas of Wilmslow, Handforth and Styal was inappropriate and potentially misleading and that the appropriate term for use in relation to Styal was ‘parish’, which reflected the wording used in the Styal petition.