Bar Hill Parish Council

Welcome to Bar Hill Parish Council, your local council representing your community. All meetings are open to the public unless Councillors decide to exclude you for reasons of confidentiality (something which very rarely happens).

Speaking

You do not have the right to speak at this meeting unless invited to do so by the Council. The way this works is as follows:

1. You should make yourself known to the Clerk or to the Chairman of the meeting, ideally before it begins.
    
2. When the item on the agenda on which you wish to speak is reached the Chairman may choose to invite the Council to suspend the meeting to allow you to speak.
    
3. If the Council agrees then you can speak on the item which is concerning you. Please try to be brief: the Council has a lot to get through at most meetings.
    
4. Once you have made your points the Chairman will ask the Councillors if they wish to ask you any questions and, if they do, you can reply to those questions.
    
5. The Chairman will then resume the meeting and the Council will then debate the item. You do not have any right to speak during this debate. The only exception would be if a Councillor, through the Chair, wishes to put another question to you.