BALLOT papers for an upcoming referendum are being reissued to Chaddesley Corbett postal voters after slips were sent out with the question missing.

Postal votes for the Chaddesley Corbett Neighbourhood Plan referendum are being sent out again by Wyre Forest District Council after an error was identified on the ballot paper.

The referendum, which is taking place on Wednesday, February 8, is to decide whether or not the council should use the neighbourhood plan to help it determine planning applications in the Chaddesley Corbett area.

The council has confirmed that 245 ballot papers are being reissued to postal voters because the question was "inadvertently omitted from the ballot paper".

New postal voting packs have been sent out this week to everyone in the neighbourhood area who votes by post.

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The counting officer, Ian Miller, said: “I would like to apologise for this error which is being corrected by cancelling all the issued postal voting packs and issuing new packs.

"I would particularly like to apologise to postal voters who have already returned their postal voting packs for any inconvenience caused.

"Postal voters in the parish of Chaddesley Corbett should dispose of the pack that they have already been sent and use the new postal voting pack, which should reach them during the course of the week of 23 January.”

The council has reminded voters there is still time to for postal voters to be completed and returned. Postal voting packs can also be handed in on February 8 at the polling station at Chaddesley Corbett Village Hall, between 7am and 10pm.