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Please note there are no scheduled elections on Thursday 1st May 2025 under Nottingham City Council |

Local elections last took place in 2023, and the next scheduled local election will be taking place in 2027. For further information, please visit ‘Local and mayoral elections 2025 | Institute for Government’  and search for ‘Where are local elections taking place?’

Nottingham City Council has agreed this Constitution which sets out the Council’s governance arrangements. These describe how the Council conducts its business, how decisions are made, who can make them and what rules and procedures must be followed to ensure those decisions are well-informed, efficiently taken, transparent and accountable to local people. Some of the processes are required by law, while others have been decided by the Council.

The Council will exercise all its powers and duties in accordance with the law and this Constitution. If the law differs from this Constitution, the law takes precedence. The Constitution helps the Council to take good, well informed decisions for our city.

The Constitution can only be amended by Full Council (with some limited exceptions).

The following 19 documents make up our Constitution. To read please click on the following link to download the file.

Sitting alongside the Constitution are the Governance Framework Documents. These documents provide more detailed information on aspects of the Constitution and are referred to through the main documents.

The Governance Framework Documents contain information that may be updated frequently. They do not require the approval of Full Council to be updated unless stated within the document itself. 

The following documents comprise our Governance Framework Documents. To read please click on the following link to download the file.

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