[Madhatter]

A parish council is now known as a town council. Our town council is elected by the public, is mostly non borough councillors, are rarely co opted on and they aren't paid to do it. A town council meeting is open to the public to watch but only speak during the public session of the main meeting. Here we have a main town council meeting, about once a month, then inbetween is a planning meeting, a policy meeting and a contracts meeting although sometimes some of the meetings are merged. our council has quality status and is taking over more and more responsibility from the borough council. We refer to it as town, borough and county. The main things, the cemetary is run by town, play areas, some street furniture, salt bins rubbish bins, signing 714 grants, opinions on planning, allotments, honourary citizen, some of the christmas lights and some of the infrastructure of, some of the dickens night and other events. borough deal with rubbish, housing, planning noise environmental health etc