Parish meeting versus parish council?

Question

A parish meeting is where the electors is below 150 if I am correct but

is there a clear readable? Document that  outlines the differences between the two

just a document entitled "Parish Meetings versus Parish Council for dummies"!

thanks!

Answer 1

I don't know of one.

If the electorate is under 151 and the parish meeting resolves that it wishes there to be a parish council, the district council has discretion to decide the matter.  So you can ask the district council to create a parish council if you want to.

Not being a corporation, a parish meeting is unable to own property or to sue or be sued.  But it can administer allotments, and any function of a parish council may on appplication be conferred on it by an order of the district council.

Seems another case for talking to the district council!

Answer 2

A parish meeting is an alternative form of governance to a parish council. A meeting can raise a precept but would not normally hire a clerk, or operate from it's own offices.  It would have a chairman though.  See https://www.southsomerset.gov.uk/media/416357/parish_meeting_powers_from_nalc.pdf

. Be careful to distinguish it from a meeting of the parish which is an annual event normally organised by a Parish Council.