About us

Your Councillors

Tony Cross – Council Chairman
Sarah Palmer – Council Vice Chair

Victoria Berkeley – Councillor
Tim Cook - Councillor
Philip Francis - Councillor
Lena Jordan – Parish Clerk

Despite the name, Parish Councils have nothing to do with the church.

Parish and Town Councils represent the first tier of local government and there are approximately 70,000 Parish and Town councillors in England. It is the most local level of government, local people elected by local residents to tackle purely local issues. While they may be responsible for smaller areas and fewer people than District and County Councils, they are recognised as the grassroots layer of democracy and are, for around 14 million people, the most ‘local’ level of local government.

Many Parishes are ‘unwarded’ (not divided into wards), so Parish councillors represent the whole Parish. Where Parishes are warded, these wards do not necessarily have the same boundaries as the District wards. In warded Parishes, the councillors represent the electors of their ward.

What do Parish Councils do?

As well as their basic responsibilities to represent the whole electorate within the Parish, deliver services to meet local needs and strive to improve quality of life in the Parish, Parish councils can also be responsible for providing a range of community services such as: street lighting; allotments; local transport, traffic services and planning.