Council Vacancies

SOUTH TAWTON PARISH COUNCIL

NOTICE OF VACANCY

TO BE FILLED BY CO-OPTION

Anyone who is qualified to be a South Tawton Parish councillor is invited to put their name forward by completing the Co-Option Application Form and sending it to the Clerk using the details below.   

Qualifications to be a Councillor

A person is qualified to be a councillor if they are a British, Commonwealth, Irish or European Union citizen and 18 or over. 

In addition, the person must meet at least one of the following criteria

1) be on the electoral register for the parish, or

2) during the whole of the twelve months, they have owned or tenanted land or premises in the parish, or

3) during the whole of the twelve months before their principal or only place of work has been in the parish, or

4) during the whole of the twelve months before they have resided in the parish or within three miles of it. 

Except for qualification (1), these qualifications then continue for the full term of office, until the next ordinary elections.  Certain people are disqualified from standing, and these include paid officers (including the Clerks) of the council, bankrupts and those subject to recent sentences of imprisonment.

The co-option policy below contains the application form and information on the process

If you would like any further information then please contact the Clerk, or speak to one of the present councillors listed below (contact details on website and parish notice boards).

Mrs Melanie Bickell (Clerk)

Lower Itton, Spreyton, EX17 5BB, clerk@southtawtonparishcouncil.org.uk

07543 443819