Have your say about how to shape the future of Rochdale

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.

Get involved

Browse the open activities below to find out more and have your say on what is happening in the borough.

Support for Parents and Carers of Neurodiverse Children and Young People

Our Neurodiversity Hub are able to coordinate drop-ins and support for parents and carers of neurodiverse children and young people. Please complete the form below to give us an idea of topics for webinars/workshops that you would find useful. We can then develop these as an offer to parents and carers whose children or young people are awaiting an Autism or ADHD assessment or simply needing support.

Improving Journeys: Heywood

Greater Manchester is building the Bee Network a new, joined-up transport network bringing together bus, tram, active travel, and rail services into one system, taking you where you need to go. Buses will form the biggest part of the Bee Network. In any given year, more than half of Greater Manchester’s population will travel by bus. Greater Manchester has received Government funding to make highways improvements that support quicker, more reliable, and more accessible bus journeys on...

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Forthcoming Consultations

  • Rochdale Borough Council Parks Survey

    We are conducting a survey in our parks to gather valuable feedback from our residents. This helps us better understand how people use our parks, identify areas for improvement and ensure the parks meet the needs and expectations of visitors. The information collected will guide future planning,...

    Opens 24 May 2025

Closed Activities

Below you can find some of the previous activities we have run which are now closed. We're working to update these pages with information on the feedback you gave us and the next steps we're taking to make a difference.

Specialist Health Improvement Service Budget Reduction

Specialist Health Improvement Service Budget Reduction Overview Outline of Proposal Public Health and Communities Directorate funds services to improve the health and wellbeing of residents in the Borough. The Specialist Health Improvement Service, Living Well is delivered by the Big Life Group. The aim of Specialist Health Improvement Service is to: Improve the health and wellbeing of residents at a community level ...

Re-introduction of Replacement Waste Bin Charge

Overview of proposal It is proposed that new charges are introduced as follows: The introduction of a £30 charge for replacement bins issued to properties that have already received a bin of the same type within the past five years. Overall impact of proposed change This change will result in Improved street scene, since April 2019 we have had 35000 reports of bins that have been abandoned, vandalised, lost or stolen accounting for almost half of the...

Middleton Crematorium

Background The cremator and related equipment at Middleton Cemetery are over 30 years old, unreliable, non-compliant, and potentially dangerous. They cannot be upgraded to meet the new Mercury Emissions regulations set for January 2027. Repairs costing around £60,000 are required to keep it operational until then, but it will not be compliant after that and therefore unusable. Middleton Crematorium is one of the least attended in...

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