Parish Council

The Parish Council is funded by a Precept which is an amount decided by the Parish Councillors each year and collected for the Parish Council by South Norfolk District Council as part of your Council Tax; if you look at your Council Tax bill you will see a line for a small amount for the Parish Council.  The precept for 2023-24 is £5,400.  The total is £649 (13.7%) higher than the figure for 2022-23.

The Parish Council is made up of 5 Parish Councillors, whose term of office is 4 years, and the most recent elections were in May 2023.  Details are shown in the “Councillors” section.  None of our Parish Councillors receive any allowances or other financial incentive for serving on the Council.  The Clerk is employed by the Parish Council to deal with the administration, organise and take the minutes of the meetings, produce the accounts and budgets and be the first point of contact for local residents.  The Clerk is also the Council’s Responsible Financial Officer, and should be contacted about any finance-related questions.  Contact details are throughout this website.

Parish Map of Claxton

The Parish Council (see boundary map above) looks after grass-cutting at the Warren and Village Hall, litter bins and allotments.  The Council is consulted on planning applications but does not make the final decision.  It supports various local charities and groups and all Parish Councillors are Trustees of the Claxton Parish Pit Charity (the Pits Trust).

South Norfolk District Council is the authority which decides on planning applications (apart from the Claxton Manor estate and 3 of the houses in Claxton Mill which lie within the Broads Authority).  It also looks after your rubbish collections, sorts out street nameplates, deals with pest control and other aspects of environmental health, tree preservation orders and licensing.

You can contact South Norfolk District Council on 01508 533633 or http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/ (external website)

At the Election in May 2023, Vic Thomson was re-elected District Councillor for the Rockland Ward, and is therefore our representative on South Norfolk Council.  He can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected].

Norfolk County Council maintains roads, pavements, streetlights on the trunk roads and some housing estates, manages the schools and adult education, social services, libraries, public footpaths and bridleways.

You can contact Norfolk County Council on 0344 800 8020 or www.norfolk.gov.uk (external website).

At the Election on 6 May 2021, Kay Mason Billig was elected County Councillor for the Loddon Division, and thus became our representative on Norfolk County Council.  Kay can be contacted by email at [email protected].

The Parish Council usually meets on the third Tuesday every odd month (January, March etc) at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall.  The schedule for the coming year is given in the “Meetings” section elsewhere in this section.

You can contact the Parish Clerk on 07960 887791 or at [email protected].

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