Householders in Arun are being asked to return their annual canvass form by 22 September or to be prepared for a knock at the door.
Over 74,000 household enquiry forms were delivered to residential addresses in the district over the summer to enable residents to check their electoral register details. The deadline for returning the forms has now passed and reminders are being sent. If you have returned your form in the last week, you may still have received a reminder. Please ignore this.
It is important that you return your form as residents who are not on the register of electors may also be refused credit on purchases, a mortgage, or a mobile phone contract as credit agencies use the electoral register to determine applications.
If you don’t need to make any changes to your information, you can use the automated services, if your details have changed, you can complete the form online or you can email these changes to www.hefresponse@arun.gov.uk; alternatively you can complete and return the paper form.
Nigel Lynn, Arun’s Electoral Registration Officer, said: “We have a deadline of 22 September and if we don’t get a form back from a property by then, canvassers will be knocking on doors to obtain the information.
“This is an additional cost to the Council so residents can save taxpayers’ money by using the telephone number, website address, or text number provided on the form, or by bringing their form to the Civic Centre in Littlehampton or Bognor Regis Town Hall.
“You can also return the form by post by using the freepost envelope provided but this costs money so using one of the above methods will help keep costs down.”
The Council has to carry out an annual canvass each year and it is a legal requirement to provide the information requested –– don’t lose your right to vote.
The new register will be published on 1 December 2017