Citizens' Panel

The Panel enables the District Council and its partners, including Derbyshire County Council, to monitor what residents think of the services we provide and ask what issues are most important locally.  We then use this information to help make important decisions. 

It was set up early in 2001 by sending out a recruitment questionnaire to 6,000 local people, selected at random from the electoral register, inviting them to take part.

From the responses to the recruitment questionnaire, 1,000 people were selected and invited to join the panel.

The panel is broadly representative of local people in terms of age, gender and geographical area. 

Topics already covered by the Citizens' Panel include:

• Crime and Community Safety Survey
• Quality of Life, Community Priorities & Culture
• Electronic Government
• Sustainable Community Strategy
• Local Plan
• Housing and Homelessness
• Street Cleansing
• Markets
• Car parking
• Voting
• Public conveniences
• Environmental Protection
• Revenues and Benefits
• Waste and recycling
• Leisure
• Communications
• Spending priorities

For more information on the Citizens' Panel please contact 01629 761102.