Consultations and engagement

This website contains consultations hosted by Leicester City Council.

We welcome all feedback - tell us what you think of our services by using our comments, compliments, and complaints forms.

Featured Consultations/Surveys

  • Dementia Support in Leicester Consultation 2025

    To make sure that we’re providing the best support possible to people with dementia and their carers in Leicester, we’re reviewing our commissioned Dementia Support Service , currently provided by Age UK. The service is designed to support people with dementia (including those awaiting formal diagnosis) and their carers to navigate life with dementia, as well as actively promoting the principle of early dementia diagnosis. The Dementia Support Service provides...

    Closes 31 July 2025

  • Apprenticeship Graduation 2025

    This year's Apprenticeship Graduation Ceremony was held on Friday 4 July at De Montfort Hall. If you've been a participant in the event, please give us your feedback. Your feedback will help us make the day even better for next year's graduates and their guests.

    Closes 20 July 2025

Open Consultations/Surveys

  • Apprenticeship Graduation 2025

    This year's Apprenticeship Graduation Ceremony was held on Friday 4 July at De Montfort Hall. If you've been a participant in the event, please give us your feedback. Your feedback will help us make the day even better for next year's graduates and their guests.

    Closes 20 July 2025

  • Proposed 20mph Zone - Astill Lodge Road Area

    Leicester City Council is proposing to change the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph on streets in the Astill Lodge Road Area

    Closes 21 July 2025

  • Leicester Local Plan – Main Modifications representations

    The urban area of Leicester is one of the fastest growing areas in the country, with a uniquely diverse population of about 650,000. The National Planning Policy Framework requires local planning authorities such as Leicester City Council to support sustainable development and to plan positively...

    Closes 29 July 2025

  • Dementia Support in Leicester Consultation 2025

    To make sure that we’re providing the best support possible to people with dementia and their carers in Leicester, we’re reviewing our commissioned Dementia Support Service , currently provided by Age UK. The service is designed to support people with dementia (including those...

    Closes 31 July 2025

  • Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025

    Pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs) are carried out around the country every three years, to ensure that local community pharmacies (chemists) are meeting the pharmaceutical needs of local people. The PNA helps NHS England and ICBs manage and make decisions about requests from pharmacists...

    Closes 11 August 2025

Closed Consultations/Surveys

  • Public Spaces Protection Orders for Dog Control 2025

    Leicester City Council currently operates three Public Spaces Protection Orders for Dog Control across the city: Fouling Exclusion Dogs on leads These grant the council legal powers to take enforcement action in relation to any dog control issues that may occur. The current...

    Closed 13 July 2025

  • Young people’s survey - libraries and community centres

    Select ‘Take the survey’ below to tell us what you think about our ideas for changing Leicester’s libraries and community centres. We want to hear the views of young people about the city's libraries and community centres.

    Closed 29 June 2025

  • Proposals for Leicester city libraries and community centres

    Leicester City Council has a statutory duty under the Public Libraries and Museum Act 1964 “to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service for all persons” who want to make use of it. Due to a decade and a half of central government cuts in funding we are not able to maintain the...

    Closed 29 June 2025

  • Future household recycling and waste / bin collection services

    Leicester City Council is considering how waste and recycling collections from households should work in future. Nothing is going to change for a while. However, we need to start thinking about it now, as there are new laws being introduced by the Government in the next few years, and...

    Closed 19 May 2025

  • Secondary Fair Access Protocol (schools) 2025

    All local authorities must have a Fair Access Protocol (FAP) to ensure that unplaced and vulnerable children, and those who are having difficulty in securing a school place in-year, are allocated a school place as quickly as possible. The protocol must be consulted upon and developed...

    Closed 12 May 2025

We Asked, You Said, We Did

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

We asked

We consulted on our proposal to extend existing Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO) for three elements of dog control in the city:

  1. Dog fouling
  2. Dogs on leads
  3. Dog exclusion areas

We asked the public and stakeholders if they had any objections to the proposal and provided an opportunity to leave feedback.

You said

336 responses were submitted. Nearly 99% of respondents were members of the public.

In summary, the responses were highly in support of extending all three PSPOs, as follows:

  1. Dog fouling - 93% in favour
  2. Dogs on leads - 99% in favour
  3. Dog exclusion areas - 84% in favour

Additional supportive stakeholder feedback was also received outside of this online process.

We did

All comments have been scrutinised and noted.

The evidence from reports and complaints to our customer services team, and enforcement action taken since the PSPO orders were introduced is in support of them being extended.

We now intend to seek approval from the city mayor to extend the PSPO orders for a further three years. Subject to this approval, notices will be posted in November 2025 confirming reintroduction, and we will publish the renewed orders on our website.

We asked

A number of residents raised concerns about parking issues in the Doncaster Road area. The majority of these relate to difficulties finding parking spaces close to their home due to commuters or other visitors to the area taking up available parking spaces.

From January to March 2025, a public engagement with residents and businesses in the Doncaster Road area was conducted to obtain their views on a potential residents parking scheme. 

You said

Approximately 558 residential and businesses were invited to take part in the consultation. In total we have received 237 responses on paper and via this website from residents and businesses in the area (42%). Responses were analysed by council officers.

  • 177 residents and business supported the proposed residential parking scheme (75%)
  • 58 residents did not support the proposed residential parking scheme (24%)
  • 2 residents and businesses did not answer the question or had no opinion (1%) 

In addition, respondents included comments both for and against residents parking in the area.

We did

The response data and comments have been analysed in more detail to determine whether or not to continue with further engagement with residents and businesses over potential measures to manage parking in the area. 

Residents’ responses to our 2025 public engagement on possible traffic measures in the Doncaster Road area indicated that there is a significant support for a residents’ parking scheme to address the issue of non-residents parking in the area. 

Based on these consultation responses, we are now preparing for a formal engagement involving the Traffic Regulation Order process.

Thank you to all those who took the time to give your views.

We asked

We sought views on a proposal to remove the one-month full discount, when empty and unfurnished properties become vacant from 1 April 2025. The aim being to help bring empty properties quicker into use.

You said

Thank you to the 27 respondents to the online consultation. The majority (78%) were Leicester residents and 7% responded as a landlord.

70% of respondents wanted to retain the current one calendar month full discount on empty and unfurnished properties when they become vacant.

30% wanted the remove this discount from 1 April 2025.

We did

Firm conclusions from the consultation are difficult to draw because of the response rate. The full Council approved the change on 19 February 2025, and also agreed to monitor the impact on average time to bring properties back into use.