Vacancies

What do Councillors do?

Councillors are elected members of local government; they conduct their business within a legal framework and are responsible to all the residents within the area. Councillors serve a four-year term, they are community-minded people with a desire to participate in shaping the future of their area.

Councillors work to identify issues which are important to the lives of the residents they represent. They bring about improvements through local projects, lobbying other service providers and working in partnership with other parish and towns and public bodies.

They can influence and shape the long-term development policy for the area, and as part of the planning process, comment on planning applications.

Councillor requirements:

You can become a councillor if you are 18 or over on the day you submit your nomination paper and are a British, Commonwealth or European Union Citizen* and at least one of the following:

A registered local government elector in the parish area in which you wish to stand as a candidate
Occupied as owner or tenant any land or other premises in the parish area during the whole of the 12 months before the day of your nomination and the day of the election
Your main or only place of work during the 12 months prior to the date of your nomination and the day of election has been in the parish area
You have lived in the parish area or within three miles of it during the whole of the 12 months before the day of your nomination and the day of the election