Minutes and agendas

What are minutes and agendas?

Agendas

An agenda is a document that's used to:

  • set the time and place of an upcoming meeting
  • list what will be discussed during that meeting

In some cases, an agenda might come with other documents that are relevant to the meeting. For example, a council officer might:

  • write a professional report about one of the items on the agenda
  • 'attach' it to the agenda so that councillors can read it

Minutes

Minutes are a written record of what happened during a meeting. They usually include notes about:

  • points that were raised or debated
  • decisions that were taken

Where you can read our minutes and agendas

You can read minutes and agendas on our 'decisions' site.

This site includes:

  • agendas of upcoming council meetings
  • minutes of council decisions from 1995 to the present day

Links in our minutes

Some of our minutes include links to specific reports and documents. If you're using certain web browsers, you might not be able to open these links. These browsers include:

  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome

We're aware of this problem with links and are working to fix it. In the meantime, you can access the documents by either: