{"id":824,"date":"2013-03-08T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/?post_type=tb_guides&#038;p=824"},"modified":"2018-05-08T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:08:23","slug":"part-10-can-i-take-part-in-meetings","status":"publish","type":"tb_guides","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/guide\/a-guide-to-committee-meetings\/part-10-can-i-take-part-in-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to make your views known on an issue or to raise a particular matter, you can of course, lobby your local County Councillor to do so on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Council has introduced a scheme to allow members of the public to ask questions or present petitions\u00a0to the Chairmen of the Cabinet, Development Management, HATOCs and Public Rights of Way.\u00a0You can also make a representation at Council on any matter or at a Scrutiny Committee on any substantive item on the agenda. Details of these schemes\u00a0are set out in a separate guide entitled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/guide\/public-participation-at-committee-meetings\/part-1\/\">Public Participation at Committee Meetings<\/a>\u2019 which also includes a link to our petitions scheme.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, many proposals under consideration by the Council are the subject of public consultation and are\u00a0publicised through press adverts, street notices, exhibitions, the internet etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tb_guide":[1316],"class_list":["post-824","tb_guides","type-tb_guides","status-publish","hentry","tb_guide-a-guide-to-committee-meetings"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tb_guides"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6043,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/824\/revisions\/6043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tb_guide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tb_guide?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}