Parish Council meetings during COVID-19
Parish Councils are normally required by law to meet in person, and to allow the public to physically attend and observe meetings.
"The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020" came into force on 4th April, and has several important impacts:
- Meetings can now be held by video conference
- Annual meetings normally required to be held by law around May each year are postponed
These regulations came into force too late to allow April's meeting to be arranged as a video conference (as by law we are still required to give 3 clear days notice of the meeting). Therefore, April's meeting is cancelled. However, it is our intention that May's meeting will go ahead as planned via video conference. Details of how members of the public can observe the meeting will be published nearer the time.
We will use May's meeting, amongst other things, to decide the impact upon other Parish Council initiatives.