What is this consultation about?
At a meeting of Full Council on Wednesday 18 June 2025, Reigate & Banstead Borough Council agreed to carry out a review of the most suitable ways to represent residents at a community level across the whole borough.
Why are we consulting you?
Parish and town councils can play an important role in providing local services and empowering communities. We want to make sure the existing governance arrangements across the borough continue to be robust and representative.
By undertaking this review now residents and community groups will have the opportunity to consider parish and town councils in light of the local government reorganisation, which will see the existing two-tier arrangement of district and borough councils and Surrey County Council replaced with new unitary authorities on 1 April 2027.
How your responses will be used
Your response to this consultation will help to shape future proposals for parish and town councils in the Reigate and Banstead area, and it will be published on the Council’s website. You are not required to include any personal information to respond to this consultation, but any personal information you provide will not be published.
After this consultation closes, Reigate and Banstead Borough Council will develop and publish its draft recommendations and seek the public’s views on those proposals during a second round of consultation, from 7 November 2025 until 16 January 2026.
About parish and town councils
Parish and town councils (also known as ‘local councils’) are elected bodies made up of local people representing the interests of their communities, usually unpaid. They can vary in size and function but typically they represent the community voice, for example as a statutory consultee on planning matters, they may manage some local services, such as allotments or parks, and seek to improve quality of life in the area.
Further information
This consultation will close at 17:00 on Thursday 18 September. If you have any queries, or want to request a copy of the survey in an alternative format, please email engagement@reigate-banstead.gov.uk or contact the customer contact centre by telephone on 01737 276 000 or via SMS if you are deaf or hard of hearing on 07834626468 (Monday - Friday between 10am and 4pm).
Data protection
This survey includes optional questions inviting you to provide your name and email address, and will only be used to invite you to comment on the second consultation once the Council has developed draft recommendations.. No other personal identifiable data will be collected. Data will only be held while we undertake this work. Data will not be shared with a third party. If you have any queries about how the council uses personal data, please read our privacy notice or contact our data protection officer on data.protection@reigate-banstead.gov.uk