Mid Ulster District Council Policy and Resources Committee, Cookstown

What to Expect

Mid Ulster District Council’s Policy and Resources Committee sits in the Chamber at the council’s Cookstown office on Thursday 3 September 2026 at 19:00, with the meeting also running by virtual means. Policy and Resources is the committee that handles the council’s finances, corporate policy, human resources, governance and the cross-cutting decisions that do not fall to Planning, Environment or Development, so it is usually where budget pressures, rates and major corporate items surface first.

Mid Ulster runs a committee cycle across Council, Audit, Planning, Policy and Resources, Development and Environment, with sittings rotating between the council’s offices in Cookstown, Dungannon and Magherafelt. Agendas and the open-business document pack are published through the council’s CMIS system, with the council noting that the open-business pack is made available from 1pm on the day of the meeting. Members of the public and press can attend the open portion of committee meetings; some items are taken in confidential session and the public gallery is cleared for those. This is procedural local government business rather than a public event, but it is the most direct way to see how spending and policy decisions across Cookstown, Dungannon, Coalisland, Magherafelt and the surrounding district are actually taken.

Good to Know

• Date and time: Thursday 3 September 2026 at 7pm
• Venue: The Chamber, Mid Ulster District Council offices, Cookstown, and by virtual means
• Price: free, open to members of the public and press for open business
• Recurrence: part of the council’s monthly committee cycle; sittings rotate between Cookstown, Dungannon and Magherafelt
• Agendas: published through the council’s CMIS meetings calendar, with the open-business document pack available from 1pm on the day
• Other September sitting confirmed: Planning Committee, Tuesday 1 September 2026 at 6pm in the Chamber, Magherafelt
• Confidential items are taken with the public gallery cleared

Getting There

The council’s Cookstown offices are in the town, which sits at the centre of the Mid Ulster district on the A29. That road runs north to Magherafelt and Coleraine and south to Dungannon and the M1 at junction 15, while the A505 comes in from Omagh to the west. There is visitor parking at the council offices and several public car parks along Cookstown’s main street. Ulsterbus services connect the town with Belfast, Dungannon, Magherafelt and Omagh, though evening services are limited.