Rochdale Borough Council Consultation Hub

Whether you live, work or travel in Rochdale Borough, we encourage you to have your say. Here you can find and participate in consultations that we run. The council will take your views into consideration when we make important decisions.

You can also read what people said about past decisions and see how we used those views to change our services.

Open Consultations

  • Dippy Feedback

    Dippy, the famous Diplodocus from London’s Natural History Museum, has had a wonderful stay with us in the North West, welcoming over 120,000 visitors, including 8,000 children from schools in Rochdale and the wider region. It’s been an incredible journey and we’ve loved seeing the... More

    Closes 31 January 2021

  • Summative self-assessment – Early Math’s Reception

    Summative self-assessment – Early Math’s Reception More

    Closes 31 January 2021

  • Initial self-assessment – Early Math’s Reception

    initial self-assessment – Early Math’s Reception More

    Closes 31 January 2021

  • Early Math’s (Reception) Evaluation

    Family Learning Service Now that you have completed the course it would be very helpful for us to know what you thought about it. More

    Closes 31 January 2021

  • The Bee Network Proposal Castleton

    The Bee Network is a proposal to make Greater Manchester an easier place for people to get around on foot or by bike. Our aim is to make the city region a nicer place to live, work, get on and grow old and to connect every neighborhood and community, while helping people be less dependent on... More

    Closes 12 February 2021

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Closed Consultations

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We Asked, You Said, We Did

Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes

We asked

Why residents might not be using their brown food and garden waste bins after analysis by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority found that 20 per cent of general waste collected in our borough was food waste.

You said

The survey found that 96 per cent of Rochdale residents felt that they understood how food and garden waste bins should be used whilst 10 per cent of respondents admitted to throwing away their food waste into the general waste bin. A number of residents stated that they used a combination of both bins to dispose of unwanted food.

Most residents surveyed said that they throw away food that is inedible, such as potato peelings, tea bags and banana skins. However, 51 per cent also said that they disposed of food that was out of date, with around one to three plates of food thrown out per resident per week.

14 per cent of residents told us that they did not always recycle their food waste as they think it is unhygienic, dirty or smell.

We did

This information will now be used to inform communications campaigns to encourage residents who sometimes use the wrong bin to always dispose of their food waste correctly and to specifically target those who never use their brown bin.

 

We asked

Do you agree with the Neighbourhood Area?

You said

Yes

We did

The Neighbourhood Area is now a Designated Neighbourhood Area

We asked

Do you agree with the Neighbourhood Forum?

You said

Yes

We did

The Neighbourhood Forum is now a Designated Neighbourhood Forum