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Elected Members. 5.3.4.1 Elected Members will be expected to act as champions for the RLDP preparation process by keeping their constituents up to date with progress. All-Member seminars will be held at appropriate times during the plan preparation process, in particular in advance of periods of public consultation. This will help to inform Council Members of the development and progress of the plan and to encourage engagement with their constituents to widen public awareness, with the intention of maximising benefits from Members' roles and the participation of the public. Members may be asked to distribute information directly to digitally excluded residents and share information via their own community social media pages. 5.3.4.2 In addition, the RLDP Member Working Group will regularly receive Pre-committee Briefings to enable a direct role in the evolution of RLDP strategies and policies and to influence the plan's direction and priorities. 5.3.4.3 Council Members will also be invited to take part in pre-booked 'drop-in' sessions with officers of the LDP Team (either on-line or in person as appropriate) to facilitate communications between the public, Members, and Officers to help to spread awareness of the RLDP preparation process and emerging strategies and proposals and to enable the views of the community and wider public to be made known. These are likely to be held during the stages of informal Community feedback on the Candidate Sites Register, to give members the opportunity to share information about sites within their wards. 5.3.4.4 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and briefings with the Cabinet Member for Regeneration & Sustainable Development will be held regularly throughout the RLDP preparation process. 5.3.4.5 The number of wards in the County will reduce from 42 to 34 following the implementation of the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales Review of Community Arrangements in the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot and will result in 4 less County Councillors.‌

Elected Members. 5.3.4.1 Elected Members will be expected to act as champions for the RLDP preparation process by keeping their constituents up to date with progress. All-Member seminars will be held at appropriate times during the plan preparation process, in particular in advance of periods of public consultation. This will help to inform Council Members of the development and progress of the plan and to encourage engagement with their constituents to widen public awareness, with the intention of maximising benefits from Members' roles and the participation of the public. Members may be asked to distribute information directly to digitally excluded residents and share information via their own community social media pages. 5.3.4.2 In addition, members' of the RLDP Member Working Group Planning Committee will regularly receive Pre-committee Briefings to enable a direct role in the evolution of RLDP strategies and policies and to influence the plan's direction and priorities. 5.3.4.3 Council Members will also be invited to take part in pre-booked 'drop-in' sessions with officers of the LDP Team (either on-line or in person as appropriate) to facilitate communications between the public, Members, and Officers to help to spread awareness of the RLDP preparation process and emerging strategies and proposals and to enable the views of the community and wider public to be made known. These are likely to be held during the stages of informal Community feedback on the Candidate Sites Register, to give members the opportunity to share information about sites within their wards. 5.3.4.4 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and briefings with the Cabinet Member for Regeneration & Sustainable Development will be held regularly throughout the RLDP preparation process. 5.3.4.5 The number of wards in the County will reduce from 42 to 34 following the implementation of the Local Democracy 5.3.5.1 Town and Boundary Commission for Wales Review of Community Arrangements in Councils within the County Borough and in areas directly adjacent to its boundaries will play a significant role in communicating information and encouraging engagement in the RLDP process and conveying communities views. 5.3.5.2 In the absence of Neath community Council's within Port Talbot area, VIVA Business support and organisations based in those areas will result be targeted and engaged in 4 less County Councillors.‌order that the views of those areas are captured.‌