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Consultations, surveys and public notices

We ensure that services meet the needs and expectations of the community by regularly engaging with you and consulting with individuals, organisations and businesses. We do this through the decision making process.

We will seek your views on a number of areas. These include:

  • Reviewing the direction of the council
  • Helping us to build active, healthy, successful and safe communities
  • Setting the council’s budget and council tax
  • Taking major decisions about council policy
  • Reviewing and improving the quality of life in the area
  • Reviewing and improving service design, delivery and access
  • Receiving feedback on performance and satisfaction levels
  • Allowing people to raise issues of importance to them.

The Consultation and Engagement Strategy for 2023 – 2026 aims to support our ambition of making North Lincolnshire the best place for our residents.

Consultations

North Lincolnshire Local Plan – have your say

A new Local Plan is being developed to guide growth and development in North Lincolnshire through to 2043, addressing key issues like:

  • Mandatory housing targets
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Economic growth
  • Minerals supply

This consultation also includes a Call for Sites Addendum to gather information on land available for future development (housing, employment, retail). All submitted sites will be assessed for potential inclusion in the new Local Plan.

Consultation documents can be viewed, and feedback and sites can be submitted via the council’s Local Plan website. Documents are also available to view online at community hubs and libraries across North Lincolnshire, and paper versions can be viewed at the Church Square House reception.

Residents and stakeholders can have their say and submit their sites by completing the online forms between Wednesday 21 May to Thursday 3 July 2025.

Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) – share your views

The SCI outlines how the council will engage local people in the planning process — including when and how consultation happens and who will be involved in shaping the Local Plan, Neighbourhood Plans, and planning decisions.

Following the consultation, the SCI will be updated based on feedback and adopted to replace the current version.

Please read the Draft Statement of Community Involvement and use the feedback form to submit your comments. Documents are also available to view online at community hubs and libraries across North Lincolnshire, and paper versions can be viewed at the Church Square House reception.

Residents and stakeholders can have their say by completing the online survey between Wednesday 21 May to Thursday 3 July 2025.

Barton upon Humber Neighbourhood Plan Consultation

The Barton upon Humber Neighbourhood Development Plan 2024-2039, prepared by Barton upon Humber Town Council, has been submitted to North Lincolnshire Council for examination. The council is now required to publicise the plan proposal and accompanying documents and seek comments. You can view the documents on the Neighbourhood Planning webpage.

Surveys

Discover @2021

We want your kids to help shape Discover@2021, the free family-friendly attraction opening in Scunthorpe town centre in spring 2025. Parents and guardians – please help your little ones fill out our quick survey. We want to know what sparks their imagination and what fun activities they’d love to see in their space!

Community activities at the Baths Hall and Plowright Theatres

This survey has been designed to gather your views regarding the community activities and events we can offer at The Baths Hall and Plowright Theatre. Your responses will be used to help us to shape our future community activities programme at both our venues, and to support local communities to flourish.

There are a total of 7 questions and completion of this survey should not take any longer than 10 minutes.

Tell us what it’s like living in your community

North Lincolnshire Council has the ambition to be the #BestPlace for our residents and to achieve better outcomes for the people and place of North Lincolnshire.

One of our priorities is to ‘Enable Resilient and Flourishing Communities’, and to help us achieve this together, we want to understand what it is like to live in your community.

We have developed the ‘our community’ tool which is designed to capture your views of your community, asking a number of questions about your lived experience, against the council’s four outcomes of:

  • Safe
  • Well
  • Prosperous
  • Connected.

The information you provide will be used to determine where we can work together to make your community a better place to live.

Rate Us

As part of our commitment to engage with you, you can now rate your most recent experience with North Lincolnshire Council by answering one question online: