Open Government Licence
As a public body spending tax payers money
we strive to be open and accountable in the way we do
business. Our website hosts lots of information about the
council and the services we provide but we have set up this section
to make it easier to find information that you may be
interested in.
The following information is available from
this section:
This information is licensed under the
Open Government Licence subject to certain exemptions: -
The licence does not cover the use of:
- personal data in the Information;
- Information that has neither been published nor disclosed under
information access legislation (including the Freedom of
Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of
the Information Provider;
- departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and
the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a
document or dataset;
- military insignia;
- third party rights the Information Provider (Barrow Borough
Council) is not authorised to license e.g. Royal Mail, Ordnance
Survey;
- Information subject to other intellectual property rights,
including patents, trademarks, and design rights e.g. postcodes,
plans, maps, architects plans; and
- identity documents such as the British Passport.
If you wish to
reuse third party data you must contact the IPR/Copyright Holder
direct for permission.
When you use this information under the Open Government Licence,
you should include the following attribution: [Open data, Barrow
Borough Council, 19 May 2011], licensed under the Open Government
Licence [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/uk-gov-licensing-framework.htm].
Spending over £500
In our
Transparency
Section you can find lots of information on our budgets and
spending. This also includes a list of our spending over
£500.
Officer salaries
We also publish full details of all our Senior Officers
Pay.
Councillor allowances and expenses
Each year we publish a list of what our councillors are allowed
to claim as expenses and what they have actually claimed for that
year. This information can be found on the Councillors'
Allowances page.
Council minutes and papers
We publish information about the local
councillors and the committees
which make all the major decisions for the council.
You can find the minutes of all our official council
meetings in the Council
Minutes section.
Job vacancies
All our job vacancies are advertised in the Council jobs
section.
Our performance
If you would like to see how we are performing
as a council please see our Annual performance report. Our performance
Licensing applications and decisions
You can view details of the following
types of licensed premises from our Public Registers
(for licensing) page:
Pet Shops, Animal Boarding Establishments, Street Traders,
Permitted Processes, Motor Salvage Operators, Cooling towers,
Register of Personal Licences (Licensing Act 2003), Register
of Licensed Premises (Licensing Act 2003), Register of Gambling
Premises (Gambling Act 2005), Hackney Carriages, Private Hire
Driver and Private Hire Operators.
Planning applications and decisions
To view Planning applications and decisions please visit our
Public
Access section.
Food hygiene reports for food outlets
On
Scores on the Doors website you can find recent food safety
inspection results of restaurants and take-aways.