Council Minutes, Records and Reports
Council minutes, reports, accounts, building improvement plans and correspondence are made available as part of the democratic process.
There are some minutes which are exempt from publication or may not be available to the public under data protection legislation.
Parish Councils
If they are available, Your Library may keep historical or recent parish council minutes.
Staffordshire Record Office has copies dating from 1894.
Urban, Borough, District and Unitary Councils
Your Library may have copies of historical or current minutes if they are deposited there by the local authority.
Records for the former Urban and District Councils are kept at Staffordshire Record Office. The Record Office also has older minutes from still active Urban and District Councils.
Staffordshire County Council
Recent minutes and reports are available online, but Your Library may have hard copies of some minutes and reports that you can use.
County Council minutes from meetings held from 1989 onwards, along with a number of early local authority records in manuscript form are held by Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service. These include the Court of Quarter Sessions and Poor Law Unions.
Get in touch
If you would like to know exactly what council minutes, records and reports are available at Your Library, get in touch.
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