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Hexham
NE46 3RR


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Hexham Council Meeting dates and other Information

Hexham Council meets in the Council Chamber, Prospect House, Hexham at 6.45 pm, usually on the first Monday each month. The scheduled dates for 2010 are:


4 Jan

1 Feb

1 March

 

12 April


10 May
AGM

7 June

12 July

2 Aug

6 Sept


4 Oct


1 Nov


6 Dec

Each meeting is advertised with the Agenda on the Council notice board at the Moot Hall. The Northumberland County Council Reference Librarian stores minutes of past meetings and they are available on this web site.

Every Council meeting is open to the public. At the start of each meeting a period is set aside for anyone who wishes to address the Council. Please look at the Council's policy for public speaking if you wish to speak at a Council meeting.

A Town meeting is held in May unless an election dictates otherwise. The Annual Town meeting is for Hexham residents and at the meeting any matter of concern or interest which relates primarily to Hexham can be raised for discussion.

Hexham Town Council is a Local Authority created by the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1972. It is a Town Council with fourteen Councilors who serve for a term of four years and who elect one of themselves each year to act as the Mayor of Hexham. He or she also chairs the Council meetings and by an annual decision taken at the Annual meeting the Mayor usually serves for two years. A Deputy Mayor is also elected and takes the Chair if the Mayor is indisposed for any reason.
Hexham Councillors do not receive any payments, unless they go somewhere on Council authorised business when they can claim reimbursement of any lawful expenses. Payments for just being a Councillor could be made but Hexham Council has always agreed it would not make any payments.
Before the Council was created Hexham already had a Council which was called Hexham Urban District Council. Other towns in the area also had their own Councils - Prudhoe Urban District Council; Bellingham Rural District Council; Haltwhistle Rural District Council and Hexham Rural District Council. These Councils were all abolished by the 1972 Act and all the Rural and Urban Councils were joined together and became Tynedale District Council. Also created by the 1972 Act were new Councils at Haltwhistle, Prudhoe, Bellingham and Hexham. They were initially created as Parish Councils but became Town Councils to show their difference from the other already existing Parish Councils; differences though were only in the size of their budgets for the powers of Parish and Town Councils are all the same.
In Northumberland we no longer have any district Councils for on the 1 April 2009 under yet another Local Government Reorganization Act all District Councils were abolished together with Northumberland County Council. The district councils and the county council all then amalgamated to become a new Unitary Authority which is called [still] Northumberland County Council.
So in Northumberland County we now have one Unitary Council and many Town and Parish Councils.

As a Local Authority the Council adopted on the 1 January 2009 the Model Publication Scheme, approved by the Information Commissioner, as required under the Freedom of Information Act. You can access the adopted Model Scheme [here] and you can access the way in which information is available from Hexham Town Council is held [here].
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The Council has also adopted an Equality and Diversity Policy and you can read this [here].

Hexham Council owns St Andrews Cemetery and three allotment sites. If you have any queries regarding the Cemetery or the Allotments telephone the Cemetery Manager, David Boaden on 01434609575 or 07710053732 or the Cemetery Superintendent, Steven English on 01434609575 or 07891101236.

If you have any queries regarding the Council telephone 01434 609575 [please leave your name & number if no one answers and your call will be returned]. Address correspondence to:- Hexham Town Council, Council Office, St Andrews Cemetery, West Road, Hexham NE46 3RR or email: clerk@hexhamtowncouncil.gov.uk.

April 2009