Area Forums

These are meetings between the three tiers of local government (Parish/Town, District and County Council) to improve how we talk and work together. They are designed to make sure that all parishes have an equal chance to get involved and voice their opinions. This will result in real changes to the way we work together now and in the future.

Who decides on the discussion topics?
We ask prior to the event  for Parish & Town Clerks to raise this at their Town/Parish meetings, the suggestions are then fed back to us and the agenda set.

Due to low attendance numbers in 2009 we consolidated the previous 7 rounds of meetings into three rounds for 2010, which cover North Norfolk.

• Fakenham, Wells and surrounding areas
• Holt, Sheringham, Cromer and surrounding areas
• North Walsham, Stalham and surrounding areas

This year we also decided to include a 'Face the People' section in the meeting (the time deicated to this if the first hour of each Forum meeting). This was open to all residents in North Norfolk to give them the chance to tell the Community Safety Partnership their own local crime and disorder issues and ask how they will be tackled. The Community Safety Partnership representatives included:-

• County Council
• North Norfolk District Council Chief Executive
• Police Authority
• Fire Service
• NHS Norfolk
• Probation Service
• Community Safety