If you believe a District or Parish Councillor within the Winchester District has breached their Code of Conduct, you can submit a standards complaint to Winchester City Council’s Monitoring Officer. These standards complaints are dealt with under a separate procedure to the Council's complaints procedure. 

Make a complaint. 

To make a complaint, use our online form. You will be asked to: 

1. Confirm your name and address. 

2. Confirm the name of the Subject Member you believe has breached the relevant council’s Code of Conduct 

3. Confirm which particular sections of the Code of Conduct they have breached. 

4. Provide supporting evidence and confirm how they relate to the allegation. 

For full details of the process, read our guidance notes available from the panel on the right. 

If you wish to make a Code of Conduct complaint online, then please click below, select the “Guest” option and follow the instructions. 

Make a complaint online  

You can also download and print out a complaint form (available from the panel on the right) and send it to us at monitoringofficer@winchester.gov.uk. 

The Monitoring Officer will not deal with complaints about the Council as a whole or matters that are not covered by the Councillors' Code of Conduct.

If you make a Code of Conduct complaint, it must be about why you think a Councillor has not followed the Code. Examples of this could include:

• Unlawfully discriminating against someone
• Failing to declare a personal/prejudicial interest
• Bullying
• Failing to treat people with respect
• Using their position improperly, to their own or someone else's advantage

Further information can be downloaded from this page.

Complaint regarding Councillor Bell, Hursley Parish Council

Documents

Decision Record (Budge) ^{(pdf, 166kb)}

Complaint regarding Councillor Learney, Winchester City Council

Documents

Decision Notice of the Monitoring Officer ^{(pdf, 128kb)}

Complaints regarding Councillors at Denmead Parish Council

Documents

1. Minutes of the Standards Sub Committee 27 January 2023 ^{(pdf, 252kb)}

2. Report of the Monitoring Officer to the Audit and Governance Committee 2 March 2023 ^{(pdf, 149kb)}

3. Minutes of the Audit and Governance Committee 2 March 2023 ^{(pdf, 211kb)}

Complaints against Councillor Kim Gottlieb

Documents:

Standards (Determination) Sub-Committee - 14 July 2020 adjourned to 23 July and to 3 August ^{(pdf, 297kb)}

Complaint against Councillor Susan Cook

Documents:

Standards (Determination) Sub-Committee - 28 February 2020 ^{(docx, 31kb)}

Complaint against Councillor Kim Gottlieb

Documents:

Summary document ^{(pdf, 100kb)}

Standards (Determination) Sub-Committee - 5 August 2018 ^{(pdf, 429kb)}

Standards (Determination) Sub-Committee - 30 August 2018 ^{(pdf, 168kb)}

Standards (Determination) Sub-Committee - 8 October 2018 ^{(pdf, 155kb)}