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Every year, Arlen Hill Council has to make hundreds of decisions that affect the community. That's why we want your input. Find all the opportunities to get involved here – and let us know your thoughts on things that matter to you.

Open Activities

Below you can find some of the activities that we are currently running. Follow the link to find out more about each activity and have your say.

Housing, homelessness and rough sleeping strategy

We are in the process of updating our Housing, Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy - our current strategy expires this year so we are asking you about what we should include in the strategy. This strategy must abide by the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. Some of our goals for our housing strategy are listed below: We would like to know the ways that you think we should go about tackling housing, homelessness and rough sleeping in Arlen Hill. What would you like to...

Climate change - what can we do?

In 2020, we declared a climate emergency and pledged we would do everything in our power to make Arlen Hill climate neutral by 2030. Although we are already underway to in reducing our carbon emissions and reaching this target, we feel it is important to ask citizens and visitors of Arlen Hill what else we can be doing to have an impact. Since a third of emissions in the UK are under the influence of local government, it is more important than ever that you get involved in helping us to take...

Your ideas for improving Arlen Hill

We are asking you, as citizens and visitors of Arlen Hill, to let us know how what improvements we can make to the borough to make it more accessible, greener and safer for everyone to enjoy. Organisations and businesses are also welcome to get involved and give us your ideas. There is the opportunity to comment on and rate other ideas, so please take some time to explore what other people have to say and give us your feedback. What kind of ideas can I submit? It needs to be...

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Closed Activities

Here you can find some of the now closed activities that we have run over the last year. Take a look to find out more about them and see what we have done since you responded.

School Streets

This is an example activity for demonstration purposes only. This site is operated by Delib Ltd and submitted responses will be discarded. The School Streets scheme aims to address the issues that many schools experience in their immediate vicinity, including poor road safety, congestion, double parking and poor air quality caused by the volume of car traffic at drop off and pick up times. The restrictions implemented by the School Streets scheme are designed to make it easier and...

Climate Emergency Strategy - Stage 1

This is an example activity to demonstrate how "We Asked, You Said, We Did" will look when an activity is closed.

Forestry Example

An example to show linking to two or more other activities

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We Asked, You Said, We Did

Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes.

We asked

The effect that climate change is having on society and our surrounding environment is becoming increasingly more apparent. Our lifestyle choices and habits will need to be changed in order to adapt to this changing climate. For example, reducing our energy consumption - which will provide many benefits to both our natural environment and to ourselves. 

Arlen Hill Council asked you what challenges you are currently facing in day to day life while adapting to a changing climate, and what you suggest we can do as a council to help tackle the issue and become a more resilient city. 

You said

We recieved a wide range of comments and feedback throughout the course of this consultation from both online and in-person events. Some of the main points put forward were:

  • TRANSPORT: A need for better transport infrastructure such as segregated cycle lanes; extension of bus routes and increased frquency of buses to more rural areas and the introduction of an electric vehicle scheme, such as e-scooters and e-bikes. 
  • SUPPORT: More support needed from the council to transition citizens and businesses to a more eco-friendly and climate-aware lifestyle.
  • WASTE: Reduction in plastic use within supermarkets, an increased frequency of bin removal, and better organisation of the recycling centre so it's easier to use. 

We did

We will present these results to the council in March 2023. We will publish all results and analysis in our Climate Emergency Action Plan which can be found on our website.