Consultations
We want to give everyone who lives, works or visits County Durham the chance to help improve our services and influence the decisions we make. One way we do this is by giving individuals, businesses and organisations the chance to have their say about subjects and services which they have an interest in.
Budget proposals for 2025/6 and Medium Term Financial Plan 2026-2029
Have your say on our budget proposals for 2025/26, as well as on how we meet the financial challenges we face over the next four years.
Consultation on our budget proposals for 2025/26 and Medium Term Financial Plan 2026-2029
The deadline for comments is 5.00pm on Friday 1 November 2024.
Proposal to merge Horndale County Infant and Nursery School and St. Francis Church of England (Aided) Junior School into a Church of England Primary School
We are asking for your views on our proposal to merge Horndale County Infant and Nursery School and St. Francis Church of England (Aided) Junior School into a Church of England Primary School from 1 September 2025.
The closing date for comments is Sunday 20 October 2024.
Financial support for adoptive families
We are looking at the way we work out how much financial support we offer to families who have adopted a child with us.
Consultation on proposed changes to financial support for adoptive families
The closing date for comments is 5.00pm on Friday 11 October 2024.
Why we consult
We want to give everyone who lives, works or visits County Durham the chance to help improve our services and influence the decisions we make. One way we do this is by giving individuals, businesses and organisations the chance to have their say about subjects and services which they have an interest in. We may also have a legal duty to consult with you, for example, before making big changes to any of our services. Listening to, and taking onboard, your views, helps us make sure our services meet the needs of our communities.
We use different levels of engagement - sometimes we ask you to be involved from the start in shaping plans and services (co-production) and sometimes it is more appropriate that we draw up draft proposals first (consultation). Once complete, we feed back the outcome of each consultation and how your feedback has influenced it.
We try our best to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to join in:
- We make printed copies of all our surveys available in our Customer Access Points and libraries as well as online.
- We produce information and surveys in Easy Read formats for people with learning disabilities and can produce documents in large print, another language or other formats on request.
For more details on how we consult, please see our Consultation Statement (PDF) [165KB] . If you'd like to know more about what we do, would like one of our current consultations in an alternative format, or are finding our service difficult to access, please Contact Consultations.
Planning
We work on a variety of planning schemes across the county and some of these applications require a consultation process. Our Statement of Community Involvement explains how we consult on planning issues currently, including:
Previous consultations and feedback from them
When our consultations close, we analyse the information we receive and make decisions based on that information. Find out about previous consultations:
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