Talk:Parish council (England)

Needs
Needs to move to correct capitalization and be less us-centric

Parish and civil parish
I see a need to recognise that the distinction between parish and civil parish is at best very blurry, especially in historical contexts. In England and the UK its a fairly late development in administrative systems. Laurel Bush 15:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC).


 * Surely a parish is an ecclesiastical geographical designation?David Lauder 10:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You'd think so, but such is the wierd fudge that is British local government organisation. --Joopercoopers 09:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

The article Civil parish duplicates this one and gives far more detail. They should be amalgamated.Hymers2 (talk) 20:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

In England a parish council is part of the civil government and is also known unofficially as a civil parish. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Church of England, where the governing body of each ecclesiastical parish (which often has different boundaries from the civil parish)is the Parochial Church Council. Hymers2 (talk) 08:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I understand (and this article supports that view} that (local government) parish council and civil parish are not synonymous. Let us keep separate pages but make the distinction clear. Jan1nad (talk) 21:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Links to disambiguation page
There is a good WP:AWB task for someone who fancies it: Special:WhatLinksHere/Parish council. MRSC (talk) 20:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Origins
The history section is a bit vague about origins and probably should mention vestries at some point. I don't know enough about that or have sources to hand unfortunately. MRSC (talk) 20:53, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I can dig out something about Hobhouse's Act (which should have an article not a redlink) and the whole open/closed vestry conflab. Lozleader (talk) 21:36, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Can also dig out the references I used here: Local Government Act 1894. The creation of parish councils was considered quite radical at the time.Lozleader (talk) 21:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've split off Civil parishes in England. Needs some work to ensure the overlap with this article is relevant. MRSC (talk) 08:11, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Parish Council and Civil Parish
The lead section states that the area covered by a PC is a Civil Parish, whereas in practice a PC can cover more than one CP. I know that later in the article this is clarified, but does the wording in the lead need changing? Jan 1 naD - (talk) 22:26, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've amended the intro so it does not explicitly exclude parish groupings. MRSC (talk) 22:35, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I think this article needs merging  with Civil parishes in England.--Kudpung (talk) 14:02, 26 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Don't think a merge is appropriate as civil parishes date from c 1535 and parish councils form 1894/5, although this is not made crystal clear in the parishes article (for instance the infobox): I will try to do a bit on the history.... Lozleader (talk) 20:38, 28 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Agree no merger. Each parish does not automatically have a parish council. Some have parish meetings, or one council covers multiple parishes. MRSC (talk) 14:41, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

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Recent Revision
I hope you are well - you recently undid an edit I made to this article regarding the claim in the introduction that most Parish Councils spend under 25 thousand GBP a year. Your point about it being bad style to add to the introduction is well taken, however I cannot seem to find the claim clarified in the article as you noted in your edit summary. Am I missing something? Balag12 (talk) 07:25, 26 February 2020 (UTC)