Could you be a Parish Councillor?
If you would like to be considered to be co-opted onto the Parish Council, please get in touch with the Clerk.
The role of a Parish Council is to improve the quality of community life for their parish and its inhabitants. They can:
- Give views on behalf of their community on consultations, planning applications and other proposals that affect the parish;
- Undertake projects and schemes that benefit local residents;
- Work in partnership with other bodies to achieve benefits for the parish or alert them to problems or work that needs to be undertaken.
You can become a Parish Councillor if you are a citizen of the UK, EU or the Commonwealth, are over the age of 18 and if you are an elector in, work in, live in or live within 3 miles of the area of the local council. However, you may not become a Parish Councillor if you hold a paid office, or other place of profit in the gift of the council; have been declared bankrupt in the past 5 years and have not repaid the debt; or have been convicted of a criminal offence in the past 5 years.
There’s more information here:
Herefordshire Council: About Parish Councils