Your Consultation Hub

Every year, Marlborough District Council makes many decisions that affect
the community. That's why we want your input.

Find opportunities to get involved here – and let us know your
thoughts on things that matter to you.

 

Featured activities

  • 2024-2034 Long Term Plan (LTP) Consultation

    Whakaputaina ōu whakaaro Have your say I tēnei tuhinga e marohi ana te Kaunihera i ngā mahi e whakamaheretia ana e mātou hei tuku ki tō tātou hapori ā roto i te 10 tau e heke mai ana. In this document Council is proposing what we plan to deliver for our community over the next 10 years.

    Closed 13 May 2024

Open activities

Housing, homelessness and rough sleeping strategy

We are in the process of updating our Housing, Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy - our current strategy expires this year so we are asking you about what we should include in the strategy. This strategy must abide by the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. Some of our goals for our housing strategy are listed below: We would like to know the ways that you think we should go about tackling housing, homelessness and rough sleeping in Arlen Hill. What would you like to...

Climate change - what can we do?

In 2020, we declared a climate emergency and pledged we would do everything in our power to make Arlen Hill climate neutral by 2030. Although we are already underway to in reducing our carbon emissions and reaching this target, we feel it is important to ask citizens and visitors of Arlen Hill what else we can be doing to have an impact. Since a third of emissions in the UK are under the influence of local government, it is more important than ever that you get involved in helping us to take...

Your ideas for improving Arlen Hill

We are asking you, as citizens and visitors of Arlen Hill, to let us know how what improvements we can make to the borough to make it more accessible, greener and safer for everyone to enjoy. Organisations and businesses are also welcome to get involved and give us your ideas. There is the opportunity to comment on and rate other ideas, so please take some time to explore what other people have to say and give us your feedback. What kind of ideas can I submit? It needs to be...

Public Space Protection Order Consultation

What is a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO)? A PSPO is an order that is enforceable under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. They are used to protect the public from behaviour that is having, or is likely to have, a detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the locality and is, or is likely to be, persistent and unreasonable. What is the Purpose of this Consultation? The purpose of the consultation is to seek any views regarding a...

Take part in the latest panel survey

View all open surveys and share your opinions.

Smallville resident forum

Councillors will be hosting an in-person event in Smallville Town Hall where residents can view the proposals, ask questions and give their feedback. The information you provide will be considered for upcoming cahnges which we intend to discuss in our annual state meeting. Following this discussing, we'll consider ways in which we can imrpove our community regarding, infastructure, emergency services, housing, funding allocation and more.

Mediumville resident forum

Councillors will be hosting an in-person event in Mediumville Parish Church where residents can view the proposals, ask questions and give their feedback.

Resident Satisfaction Survey 2025

Most Council services have targets for resident satisfaction in the Long Term Plan and reported in Council’s annual report. This survey is carried out independently by SIL Research each year. Six hundred residents are randomly selected via telephone, a postal mailout and social media. Data is weighted to reflect location, gender and age group proportions as per the Census. The sample size allows a 95% confidence level, +/- 4-5% when the results are reported as totals. The first survey...

Treasury Management Policies

Marlborough District Council (MDC) undertakes borrowing (Liability Management Policy) and investment activities (Investment Policy), which in total are referred to as treasury activity. MDC's treasury activities are carried out within the requirements of the Local Government Act 2002 (LGA 2002), its related amendments and other relevant local authority legislation.

Closed activities

We asked, you said, we did

Below are outcomes for some of the issues we've recently asked about.

We asked

Arlen Hill asked residents and stakeholders what their thoughts were about the council’s draft Climate Emergency Strategy, and what their top priorities are for which actions the council should take first.

You said

We received over 2000 responses from residents, local businesses and environmental groups. Most respondents supported the draft Strategy in broad terms, but many also left us useful suggestions.

In terms of climate priorities, the top rated actions were:

  • Transport: Arlen Hill urgently needs to reduce congestion on the roads and improve public transport so that people can get around without driving.
  • Financial support: Many businesses are worried about the potential of rising business rates and the increasing cost of energy. Commuters are also concerned about Clean Air Zone charges, especially those on low incomes. Arlen Hill should provide support in these areas.
  • Home insulation: Arlen Hill should prioritise getting all council-owned buildings upgraded and insulated, as well as installing solar panels wherever possible.

We did

We’re updating the Climate Strategy to reflect your comments and concerns as well as your top priorities. Work has already started on insulating council buildings and we will bring out consultations on the top three priority areas (transport, financial support, home insulation) as soon as possible.