Parish Council

What is the Parish Council?

Twyford Parish Council is governed by local volunteer residents and run by the Parish Clerk, who works part time, but can be contacted about local parish facilities – as can the individual Councillors. The Parish Council has limited powers but can influence other bodies. There is a good overview of what a Parish Council can do on Wikipedia. The extent of the parish is shown on the Home Page.

Twyford Parish Council meets regularly with most full council members. Its’ committee meetings take place in the Gilbert Room of the Parish Hall and on occasion at the Pavilion in Hunter Park. Minutes of meetings are available. For all meeting dates, please see the Full Parish Council page of the website.

Local government for Twyford

Twyford is under four different local authorities:

• Twyford Parish Council
• Winchester City Council
• Hampshire County Council
• South Downs National Park (SDNP); Twyford is within the national park so for some matters is under the SDNP Authority.

Twyford is within the constituency of Winchester and Danny Chambers is the Member of Parliament

Planning

The planning authority for Twyford is the South Downs National Park Authority. The planning section of their website contains details of applications (search for ‘Twyford’ to see all open applications). The SDNP Authority delegates the planning matters to Winchester City Council but reviews any ‘strategic’ applications or issues. Twyford Parish Council (TPC) also has a planning committee that meet regularly and review every application within the parish boundary. TPC has no direct authority over planning matters but any formal representations must be considered – and the Parish Council can often make use of local knowledge to feed back on plans. For more information please see the separate Planning Committee page.