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Cheshire East is to audio webcast all decision-making meetings

The move follows a successful trial of the recording technology over several months and will see both live audio and archived recordings made available to the public.

The new arrangements will bring increased transparency and access to debates and decisions for those who cannot attend council meetings in person.

Consderation has been given to both audio and video webcasting, but the latter has proved prohibitively expensive for the use it gets in practice

The relevant audio recording of debate and decisions is now attached to each agenda item's minutes -- saving listeners from having to search across a recording of the whole meeting.

This is particularly helpful given that some planning meetings, for example, have been known to last for almost 10 hours.

Ed – When the AudlemOnline webteam have worked out how to do it, we will publish the information so that everybody can listen to debates.

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