Shropshire Association of Local Councils

Welcome to the Shropshire Association of Local Councils website

We work from a small but very busy office based at The Shirehall in Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury and we serve all local councils in Shropshire and Telford & The Wrekin.

Membership is open to all local councils and parish meetings on payment of a small annual subscription. The one subscription covers membership of both SALC and the National Association of Local Councils (NALC).

Some of the services we provide:

We help local councils by advising on problems of legal, technical, insurance or administrative nature. Anything we can't deal with we "Know a man who can" at many organisations including NALC.

We speak for local councils on matters affecting them which arise in Shropshire and the Borough of Telford & Wrekin by direct representations to the local authorities, health authorities, water companies and other public utilities etc.

Our contacts include direct links to both central government and Shropshire's MPs and MEPs.

We lobby and respond to consultation documents on issues such as town and country planning, health and community care services and local government.

We provide access to many relevant publications, most of which are available through this website.

In conjunction with the Shropshire Training Partnership we facilitate training courses for clerks and councillors.

We regularly liaise with the District, County and Borough Councils to strengthen and improve communications between the three tiers of local government and promote partnership working.