Area Committees

Local decisions affecting a restricted area may be taken by one of the Local Area Committees. Area committees have only small budgets and limited powers, but they can and do hold the central departments to account. They have major effects on policies and services for the people they represent.

Each area committee meeting includes an "open forum" where any member of the public can raise matters of local concern. This is among the quickest ways to get a local issues discussed.

Other agencies such as the voluntary, community and faith sector, Emergency Services and the Police may attend and report to area meetings, and this is one of the few occasions when the public can get all these different bodies together in one room and hold them all to account.

Most Outer and Inner Area Committees meets on a rotating basis anybody who attends the meetings and signs the register will be added to a mailing list and automatically notified of the dates and locations for future meetings. Otherwise people can discover future meeting details, minutes and agenda items from the council website, Area Managers or from the relevant Leeds Voice geographic wedge.

The Area Manager for West:North West is Steve Crocker: 0113 395 0966
The acting Area Manager for South:Outer East is Keith Lander: 0113 247 5536
The Area Manager for East:North East is Rory Barke: 0113 2145865

Fpr more information and thye latest papers from the area comittees see
http://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/ieDocHome.aspx?Categories=