Hankerton Church
The North Aisle serves as the village's community meeting space, where the council meets.
A small rural parish of around 225 electors across 115 homes, set in the north Wiltshire countryside near the Cotswold Water Park.
Next meeting & how to attendPhotograph: The Old Vicarage, Hankerton © Vieve Forward, CC BY-SA 2.0
The parish
With 115 homes on the books, Hankerton is small enough that the council knows most of the issues before they are raised. Meetings happen in the North Aisle of the church, six times a year, and anyone can turn up. Right now the council is asking residents what they want done about traffic speed through the village.
Everything the council publishes, minutes, agendas, accounts and meeting dates, is kept on this site so you do not have to hunt for it.
Who represents you
7 councillors serve the parish, all of them unpaid volunteers. The clerk, Michael Bromley Gardner, handles the council's business day to day.
Open to everyone
Bi-monthly, usually the first Monday at 7:30pm in the North Aisle community area of Hankerton Church.
Every meeting has time set aside for residents to speak. Agendas are published at least three clear days beforehand, and minutes go up here once approved.
Everything on the record
Agendas, minutes and the council's finances, kept up to date and easy to find. On a rebuilt site each of these would open a real, readable page or PDF.
Around the parish
The North Aisle serves as the village's community meeting space, where the council meets.
The council is gathering residents' views on traffic speed through the village.
A parish emergency preparedness plan is in place for flooding and severe weather.
Get in touch
On the live site the clerk's email and phone would sit here, one tap to contact.
Built in from the start
This preview is built to meet WCAG 2.2 AA: it works with a keyboard, has proper headings and landmarks, visible focus, labelled form fields, and text that resizes on a phone. A live rebuild would ship with a dated, published accessibility statement, the exact thing the annual return's Assertion 10 asks a council to confirm.