Your Parish Councillors

Requirements for being a Parish Councillor

QUALIFICATIONS TO BE A PARISH COUNCILLOR & TERM OF OFFICE

 

A person is qualified to be a councillor if they are 18 years old or over and a British, Commonwealth, Irish or European Union citizen.  In addition, the person must meet at least one of the following criteria:

 

  1. on the relevant day and thereafter they continue to be on the electoral register for the parish; or
  2. during the whole of the 12 months before that day they have owned or tenanted land or premises in the parish; or
  3. during the whole of the 12 months before that day their principal or only place of work has been in the parish; or
  4. during the whole of the 12 months before that day they have resided in the parish or within 4.8 kilometres of the boundary.

 

Term of Office

Town/parish councillors hold office for a period of four years (or if elected part way through the cycle, for the remainder of that period only) and retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election.