Making a complaint about a councillor

If you wish to make a complaint that a Borough Councillor or a councillor from the 27 Town and Parish Councils in the Borough has breached the Members' Code of Conduct it should be made to the Borough Council's Standards Committee.

Your complaint must be made in writing to:
Standards Committee
c/o Monitoring Officer
Charnwood Borough Council
Southfield Road
Loughborough
LE11 2TT
e-mail michael.hopkins@charnwood.gov.uk

or by using the attached form.

• Complaining about a councillor - complaint form (PDF Document, 0.1 Mb)
• Complaining About a Councillor - Complaint Form (Word) (Word Document, 0.2 Mb)

It is important that you provide all of the information in your complaint about what the councillor has done, which in your view breaches the Code of Conduct, that you wish to be taken into account.  For example, please include:

• a clear explanation of what each councillor has done if you are complaining about more than one individual
• specific descriptions about what a councillor said or did
• the dates of alleged incidents wherever possible
• references to relevant sections of the Code of Conduct wherever possible.

The Standards Committee has adopted a procedure and criteria for assessing complaints and deciding whether they should be referred for further action or not.  Please see the related document link at the bottom of this page for further details.

The following table provides information on the number of complaints that have been received by the Standards Committee, and the outcome of those complaints, in 2009/10 and 2010/11.

 * Standards Panel finding was that no breach of the Code of Conduct had occurred.