The Parish Council is continuing to press SLDC hard for an answer to when the next parish council elections are likely to be held – in an effort to save local taxpayers’ money while still giving residents the chance to have a choice about who represents them for next four years. Owing to a historic error by SLDC, our elections are out of synch with other local elections.
The currently serving parish councillors took office in 2012 but if an election were held four years on, in 2016, it would be an expensive business because it could not be held alongside any other local poll. The Council has been urging SLDC to get the Secretary of State’s approval for an election in 2014 for well over a year. It’s now only a few months away but the situation is still uncertain so the Parish Council has written to the Monitoring Officer at SLDC for reassurance that, among other things, the costs of an election in 2016, if it were necessary, would not have to be met by Natland Parish residents.
It is still hoped that an election on 22 May 2014 will be possible – in which case we will be looking for new candidates willing to stand and help supervise the implementation of the new Parish Action Plan (downloadable from the Parish Plan page of this website) at least until 2018.
The currently serving parish councillors took office in 2012 but if an election were held four years on, in 2016, it would be an expensive business because it could not be held alongside any other local poll. The Council has been urging SLDC to get the Secretary of State’s approval for an election in 2014 for well over a year. It’s now only a few months away but the situation is still uncertain so the Parish Council has written to the Monitoring Officer at SLDC for reassurance that, among other things, the costs of an election in 2016, if it were necessary, would not have to be met by Natland Parish residents.
It is still hoped that an election on 22 May 2014 will be possible – in which case we will be looking for new candidates willing to stand and help supervise the implementation of the new Parish Action Plan (downloadable from the Parish Plan page of this website) at least until 2018.