Wales has 22 councils. Between them they hold hundreds of meetings a month, and decide on schools, bins, housing, roads, planning and council tax. Their papers are public but hard to follow. OpenCouncil reads them every day and tells you, in English and Welsh, what was decided and why.
So far: 14,787 meetings, 30,987 recorded decisions and 1,195 councillors across 21 councils.
Meetings of the full Council, the Cabinet, scrutiny and planning committees are explained in a few plain sentences: what the councillors decided, the reasons given, and links to the reports behind it.
Enter a postcode to find your ward and the councillors who represent it. See which committees they sit on, how often they turn up, and the interests they have declared.
One search covers the agendas, minutes and decisions of every council on OpenCouncil. Find out where else a school closure, a 20mph scheme or a new development has come up.
Every council, committee, topic and search has its own feed, and every council has a calendar of its meetings. Add them to a feed reader or your calendar. No account needed.
Councils don't publish a word-for-word record of their meetings. Their minutes are the official account of what was decided, so OpenCouncil only says what was decided once the minutes are out.
About a week before the meeting, the council publishes the agenda and the reports councillors will discuss.
Councillors debate and vote. OpenCouncil records who attended.
Usually a few weeks later, the council publishes the minutes: the official record of what was decided.
AI reads the minutes and reports and writes a short account in English and Welsh. Every point links to the document it came from.
Compare what different councils are doing about the same thing.
Each hexagon is one council, placed roughly where it is in Wales. The letters are the council's short code; point at or tap one to see its name.
Decided: The meeting agreed to advertise the land edged red on the plan for sale. It gave the Head of Planning and Regulatory Services delegated authority (power to act without a further meeting) to accept the highest offer at or above the minimum value, after a suitable marketing period under the council's Corporate Asset Policy. It also agreed that the report stays confidential until the sale is complete.
Decided: The meeting noted the four objections received during the consultation and overruled them.
Decided: The decision approved the appointment of school governors, as set out in the agenda pack.
Decided: The Cabinet Member approved setting up the Tackling Poverty Support Fund, paid for by the Welsh Government's 2026/27 Tackling Poverty Support Funding Package.
Decided: The Cabinet Member approved the revised Internet Usage and Monitoring Policy.
Decided: The Cabinet Member approved the updated Cyber and Information Security Policy.
Planning Committee, Cardiff
Care Scrutiny Committee, Gwynedd
Place Scrutiny Committee, Monmouthshire
Education Scrutiny Committee, Neath Port Talbot
Planning Delegation Panel, Pembrokeshire
Planning and Development Committee, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Council, Swansea
Point at or tap a council to see its name.