12 Jun 2025 – Other Meeting (Minutes)

Smaller authority name: Great Sankey Parish Council
NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION
OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE &
ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)

NOTICE

1. Date of announcement: Thursday 13 June 2025

2. Each year the smaller authority’s Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) needs to be
reviewed by an external auditor appointed by Smaller Authorities’ Audit Appointments Ltd. The
unaudited AGAR has been published with this notice. As it has yet to be reviewed by the appointed
auditor, it is subject to change as a result of that review.
Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial
year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other
documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For
the year ended 31 March 2025, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to:

Karen Carter (Parish Clerk)
Whittle Hall Community Centre
Lonsdale Close
Great Sankey
Warrington
WA5 3UA

01925 712279
Enquiries@gs-pc.net

commencing on Monday 16 June 2025

and ending on Friday 25 July 2025

3. Local government electors and their representatives also have:

• The opportunity to question the appointed auditor about the accounting records; and

• The right to make an objection which concerns a matter in respect of which the appointed
auditor could either make a public interest report or apply to the court for a declaration that an
item of account is unlawful. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the auditor and a
copy sent to the smaller authority.

The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for this purpose
between the above dates only.

4. The smaller authority’s AGAR is subject to review by the appointed auditor under the provisions of the
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 and the NAO’s Code
of Audit Practice 2015. The appointed auditor is:

PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team)
15 Westferry Circus
Canary Wharf
London E14 4HD
(sba@pkf-l.com)

5. This announcement is made by Karen Carter (Parish Clerk)