General Information About Mid Beds Website

Information on how to use the site, along with credits

The Mid Beds Web Site contains a wealth of information about the Council, the services it provides and the many aspects of business, community and leisure in Mid Beds. 

Look around our website and you can find out who your representative on the Council is, or how to contact councillors by e-mail to make your views known. 

If you want to know about housing benefit or council tax benefit; how to make a planning application; or you want to find out who has applied for planning permission; or need help with your business; or need housing advice then this website offers all the right information. 

If you are planning a day out, then make us your first stop and discover the myriad of exciting places to visit in Mid Beds from motor museums to stately homes or follow the Mid Beds Scenic Route.

In fact you can find information on everything from the political structure to press releases, committees to councillors, golf courses to managed business units on our website. If you can’t find what you’re looking for please let us know and we’ll add it, or if it’s on the site we’ll try to make it easier to find! Please e-mail your comments, good or constructive, to webmaster@midbeds.gov.uk or fill in the online contact form.

Searching for Council Committee Decisions

You can find out about decisions made by the Council’s Committees or Panels by searching through the Committees section under "About Your Council". This is a collection of reports, agenda and minutes of Committee Meetings from May 2000 and available to the public. Certain documents which relate to commercial or personnel decisions are not included. 

Committee papers are currently published as Microsoft Word documents. Some of the appendices may be in Excel or Powerpoint format and other documents, including Decision Digests and the Council’s Forward Plan, may be Adobe Acrobat .pdf files.  

Below is a list of free viewers that you can download, which will enable you to view the committee (and other) documents on the website if you cannot already.

Popup Windows

We are in the process of replacing popup windows on the site to comply with accessibility requirements. This means that if you click on a link from a page on the Mid Beds site to an external site it will, in future, replace the information within that window. 

If you would rather the link opened in a new (separate) window, so, for example you can shuttle between this site and the external site, you will need to right-mouse-click (assuming your mouse is configured for a right-handed user) on the link and choose "Open in New Window" from the menu. 

Linked Sites

The Mid Beds District Council website contains links to other web sites - for example to Bedfordshire County Council and other District Councils within Bedfordshire as well as local attractions, communities and businesses. 

We are always looking for new relevant sites to add. If you would like to suggest links to other websites appropriate to Mid Beds please e-mail your suggestions to webmaster@midbeds.gov.uk or fill in the online contact form.

Please note we cannot accept responsibility for the content or suitability of external sites and Mid Beds Council does not necessarily endorse the content - links to external sites are offered as a service only.

If you find any problems

We try to bear in mind that visitors to the Mid Beds web site will be using a variety of web browsers to view the information but there may be times when something doesn’t work as expected (or even at all!). 

The site works best when viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or later but, as a guide, most things should work if you have version 5.5 or later of Microsoft Internet Explorer or later. We would welcome your feedback if you find something on the site which causes you a problem. 

Please e-mail your comments to webmaster@midbeds.gov.uk or fill in the online contact form and we will try to solve the problem as soon as possible. 
  
For further information about Council Services, please contact:

   Mid Beds District Council,  
   Priory House,
   Monks Walk,
   Chicksands,
   SHEFFORD,
   Beds,
   SG17 5TQ

General Enquiries email for all services is: info@midbeds.gov.uk or fill in the online contact form. Your enquiry wil be passed on to the relevant person for reply.

Acknowledgements and Credits

A large number of groups, companies and people have played an important role in the construction of this website, and they are acknowledged below (in no particular order):