Robin Bastable (Chairman)

01963 32317

Sheran Ring (clerk)

01963 32880 or 07904 216776

charltonmusgroveclerk@gmail.com

District Councillor (Tower Ward)

Councillor Mike Beech

01749 812335   mike-beech@south somerset.gov.uk

County Councillor  (Wincanton and Bruton Division)

Councillor Anna Groskop

01749 812520  AMGroskop@somerset.gov.uk

Would YOU like to become a Parish Councillor???

The ordinary elections in 2019 are being held on Thursday 2nd May, when they are being combined with the elections for South Somerset District. .

If you would like to become a Parish Councillor, please contact the Parish Clerk (charltonmusgroveclerk@gmail.com) to request a nomination pack. The close of nominations is 4pm on Wednesday 3rd April. 2019
 

Qualifications to be a Councillor

A person is qualified to be elected and to be a councillor if they are a British, Commonwealth, Irish or European Union citizen and on the relevant day (that is, the day of nomination or election) they are 18 or over. In addition, the person must meet at least one of the following criteria:

(1) they are and will continue to be on the electoral register for the parish, or

(2) during the whole of the twelve months before the day of their nomination they have owned or tenanted land or other premises in the parish, or
 

(3) during the whole of the twelve months before the day of their nomination their principal or only place of work has been in the parish, or

(4) during the whole of the twelve months before the day of their nomination they have resided in the parish or within 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) of the boundary of the parish.

Except for qualification (1), these qualifications then continue for the full term of office, until the next ordinary elections. Certain people are disqualified from standing, and these include paid officers (including the Clerks) of the council, bankrupts and those subject to recent sentences of imprisonment.