Welcome to the Hook Norton Parish Council website.

Here you will find the minutes of recent meetings and details of how to contact your councillors.

Please let us know your views.

What is a Parish Council?

Originally Parishes were ecclesiastical areas then, in 1889, it became
statutorily defined as "a place for which a separate poor rate is or can be
made or for which a separate overseer is or can be appointed". Whilst
overseers and poor rates were abolished in 1925, and urban parishes ceased
to exist after 1 April 1974, the rural parishes continued as parishes. There
are some 10200 parishes in England of which 8629 have an elected parish
council [the others, usually small parishes, only have parish meetings]. A
parish council is a body constituted under powers conferred by Parliament
but it only has powers which have been specifically conferred upon it by
Acts of Parliaments. It must hold not less than four meetings per year, one
of which must be the annual meeting. It is a corporate body but it is not
necessary for it to have a common seal. The size [i.e. number of
councillors] is determined by the district or unitary council.