Where does the local record start?

Where to start

Deterministic slices of records already held. These are navigation paths, not recommendations.

• Who represents a place

  Who sits on the council?

  Councillors published by each council's democracy service.

  Records held: counted on open

• Recent council meetings

  What was decided, and when?

  Meetings ordered by the date published in the council's calendar.

  Records held: counted on open

• Planning applications

  What is being built?

  Applications published by councils with a machine-readable register.

  Records held: counted on open

• Council spending

  Who does a council pay?

  Payments to suppliers published under local transparency rules.

  Records held: counted on open

• Declared interests

  What have councillors declared?

  Register of interests entries published by the council.

  Records held: counted on open

Follow the evidence

Each path is built only from relationships already recorded. Where a hop holds no records, the path stops there.

• From a council decision to a company

  1. •Council379 held
  2. ↓Meeting
  3. ↓Decision
  4. ↓Planning application
  5. ↓Company

• From a council to its suppliers

  1. •Council379 held
  2. ↓Spending record
  3. ↓Supplier
  4. ↓Company

Where the local record is deepest

Authorities with the most meetings currently held. Depth reflects what each council publishes, not its importance.

• Meetings held

  City of York Council

  4,872 meetings · 243 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  City of London Corporation

  4,783 meetings · 250 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  Cornwall Council

  3,797 meetings · 144 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  Cheshire East Council

  2,516 meetings · 183 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  Exeter City Council

  2,490 meetings · 130 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  East Sussex County Council

  2,080 meetings · 74 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

  1,933 meetings · 42 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  Brighton and Hove City Council

  1,903 meetings · 178 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  Cambridge City Council

  1,733 meetings · 96 committees
  Not published
• Meetings held

  Bath and North East Somerset Council

  1,684 meetings · 76 committees
  Not published

Every authority

Complete corpus · all local authorities held, with measured record counts