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About us at Ulverston Town Council
About Your Council
Ulverston Town Council is the administrative body that looks after the various elected Councillors that represent you on a day-to-day basis. With eighteen Councillors on the Council, all of whom serve a period of four years, the organisation ensures that Ulverstonians are listened to both by South Lakeland District Council and Cumbria County Council.
The Town Council
Ulverston Town Council has eighteen Councillors elected for a period of four years. Councillors are elected from six wards in the town; these are Town Ward, Central Ward, North Ward, South Ward, East Ward and West Ward. These wards are also used to elect Councillors to South Lakeland District Council (SLDC).
Ulverston Town Council has six statutory Committees, covering its responsibilities; these are the Finance & Grants Committee, Allotments Committee, Emergency Committee, Charter Committee, Publicity Committee and Appreciation Certificate Selection Committee. Meetings of the full Council normally take place twice a month.
We are here to represent the people of Ulverston and we strongly listen to concerns and either deal with them ourselves or liaise with either South Lakeland District Council or Cumbria County Council. Additionally we have Councillors appointed as representatives on various outside bodies, working for the benefit of the local community.
Ulverston Town Council is currently aiming towards Quality Council Status which would visibly enhance and improve the role of the Town Council for the overall benefit of Ulverston. The Town Council was formerly a Borough Council prior to the local government reorganisation in 1974, after which most important responsibilities were transformed to South Lakeland District Council. Our main aim for attaining Quality Council Status is to regain some of these former responsibilities and broaden our service delivery to Ulverston.
A Message From The Town Mayor
I am privileged to be able to serve as the Mayor of Ulverston. It would be difficult to underestimate the importance the community of Ulverston has had on me. I have spent my working life in the Town and raised my family here and I am grateful to have this opportunity to repay to the Town some of the debt that I owe it. I promise to do all that I can to promote and support Ulverston at every opportunity I am given; and to be a champion for all its residents. We are extremely fortunate in having great community spirit here in Ulverston; together with a diversity of talents and expertise working alongside innovative businesses, high skill manufacturers and entrepreneurs; together with community orientated groups, superb Arts organisations and dedicated sports organisations which makes Ulverston such a fantastic place to live and thrive in.
Can I offer our many visitors a friendly welcome, one that they will find repeated throughout their time in our Town. If you are visiting us to enjoy one of the many Festivals we are getting to be quite famous for, I hope you have a marvellous time.
My mayoral year will above all, be a humbling experience because I will see so much of the Community spirit and drive that lifts Ulverston into that category of places that once you have been there you never want to leave. I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can in the year ahead.
Cllr. Phil Lister
Town Mayor