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Every Principal Council in England, With the Register We Built It From
A working register of the 335 principal local authorities in England: unitaries, London boroughs, metropolitan boroughs, counties, districts and combined authorities. Built from the official registers, cross-checked against each other, and every website opened to confirm it answers.
How To Read This Site, And How To Check Whether We Got It Right
Every claim here carries a number that leads to the document it came from. This is what those numbers mean, what the tags mean, how to open the same documents we did, and what to do when you think we have got something wrong.
The Corrections Log. Every Error This Site Has Published, and What Was Done About It.
Every substantive error published on this site is recorded here permanently: what was wrong, when it was fixed, and how it got through. An empty log means no errors found yet, not no errors made.
For Thirty Working Days a Year, You May Inspect the Invoices Behind Your Council Accounts. Most Councils Never See a Single Request.
Every year English councils must open their books, contracts, bills and receipts to any local elector for a thirty working day window. The right is in statute, the window is published on every council website, and it goes almost entirely unused. Here is how it works.
Your Council Publishes Its Secrets Every Year. This Site Exists Because Almost Nobody Reads Them.
Accounts, minutes, registers of interests, contract awards, FOI responses: local government produces a public paper trail that would take a full-time reader to follow. This site is that reader. Every claim here cites a primary document you can open yourself.