An exciting new section has been added to Visit Scunthorpe which will provide members with the ability to search for and locate local councillors. Currently there are 43 elected members of North Lincolnshire Council representing the 18 wards which make up the area. These are all listed on the North Lincolnshire Council web site, along with their rolls and responsibilities. However, there is no way using the NLC web site that members of the public can quickly and easily search for a Councillor with particular responsibility for a particular job or task. That's where VisitScunthorope comes in. We've spent the day entering all 43 Councillors details in to a shiny new database along with their party, ward, email address, rolls and responsibilities and committee memberships. Then we wrote a semi-reasonable search facility which will search through all of these details to find matches or partial matches for each councillor. Its that good it even details will misspelled wards or names! For example, if you wanted to know who the major was, you'd go to the search box in Local Government and type in Mayor - it would show you not just the mayor but also the deputy mayor too! You can also get a list of every one on the planning committee by typing in planning, which is useful for people wanting to lobby members over a particular issue. We are currently working on a new facility to message members from the site and to share with other users the questions and feedback which local residents are asking their local councillors. Once this has been completed I'm then going to move on to our local MP's, I'll also (with their permission) be providing archives of constituency news letters and similar publications. View the new local government section here

View the Local Councillors A-Z List here

Have a go with the Search Facility here