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    Contact Us

    Address:
    The Guildhall
    Frankwell Quay
    Shrewsbury
    SY3 8HQ
     
    Telephone:
    01743 281000
     
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    Website Workshop - example links

    One of the areas in which our website excels is the depth of information it contains.
    Content is contributed and maintained by about 100 users across the council. Here are a few examples.
     
    (the pages will open up in a new window, which you can close when you want to return to this page)
    . . . and its not just about council services . . .

    Search

    We are particularly pleased with the search facility on our website.
    A couple of years ago when all the councils in Shropshire were looking to update their search tools, SABC proposed that a joint facility should be developed. SABC played a leading role in the specification and implementation of this facility.
    This allows customers searching on our site to be informed about relevant content on the sites of the other districts, the County Council, and other selected sites such as Darwin Country and the Safety Partnership.
    The search box is in the top right corner of every page on our site - give it a try!
    Remember to look in all three tabs above the search results.
    • Shrewsbury Results
      results from SABC sites
    • Search Wider - All Shropshire
      results from sites of all Shropshire councils
    • Related Sites
      suggestions of third party sites matching the search criteria - from our database of 2000 recommended websites.
    Try going to our home page and searching for . . .
    • Air
      we have extensive information on air quality, also the related sites tab offers links to all sorts of useful sites
    • Free School Meals
      This is a County service, there are a few low relevance references on our site, but the most relevant information is found via the 'Search Wider' tab on the county site.
      You can get better results on this search by changing the Match type from "any words" to "all words" or "exact phrase"

    Planning

    The planning section on our website has been rated especially highly. The Pendleton Monitoring Survey, released on 29th June rated us 4th in the country, with 20 points out of 21.

    Local Alert

    This is our email subscription service, customers can sign up (free of charge) to receive email alerts of fast changing local information such as;
    • Elections
    • News
    • Jobs
    • Health and Safety Warnings
    • Planning - Location Specific
    Find out More
     

    Online Discussion Forums

    Have you seen our online discussion forums?
    Residents can communicate with each other as well as the council on a range of topics and issues.
    The discussions are monitored and added to by relevant officers - in many cases we are able to give definitive answers to questions that many people can read, rather than providing answers to just individuals.

    There are forums on a range of big issues, and a forum for each ward.

    Chief Executive's Blog

    Robin Hooper has a blog at
    This service enables the public to comment on topics initied by the chief executive, the most lively topic so far has been the unitary debate.

    Online Payments

    Customers can make a range of online payments, such as Council tax or Business Rates

    Webcams

    Forms

    An additional partnership project involved the introduction of an online forms tool to the website.  This allows us to create online forms that website visitors can use to report problems, apply for things online, and generally communicate with the council.  The benefits of online forms include convenient 24x7 access to council services for everybody, particularly those with limited mobility, or those who live a distance away from the council.  Processing queries and service provision automatically is also cost efficient. 

    Intranet

    The following facilities are available on the SABC internal network, but not on the public website.
    • Staff Directory
    • Staff noticeboard
    • Personnel resources
    • Image Library