Douzaine
The Douzeniers work for you by offering their services free of charge to administer the Parish. Your Douzaine are responsible for many parochial duties and meet once a month.
Parochial duties
- Organising elections
- Cemetery managements
- Parish property management
- Community events
- Parish events
- Inspections of hedges/streams
- Abreuveurs and troughs
- Moorings/Mooring Committee
- Refuse collection
- Parish rates
- Noxious weeds reports
- Seat placing and upkeep
- Dangerous buildings monitoring
- Crown and anchor permission
- Dangerous roads monitoring
- Hawkers licences
- Parish notices
- Hiring of Douzaine Room
- Building permits/bornements
- Emergency planning
- Dog tax collection
Douzaine meetings
Meetings usually take place on the last Monday of the month. If you have any item which you would like the Douzaine to discuss, please send it in a week before the meeting via the office email or contact any Douzenier.
Your DouzEniers
Jo May
Canton 1
e: jom@castelparish.com
Peter Sidebottom
Canton 1
e: peter@castelparish.com
Brian Aplin
Canton 2
e: brian@castelparish.com
Steve Page
Canton 2
e: steve@castelparish.com
John Cook
Canton 3
e: john@castelparish.com
Vacancy
Canton 3
Claire Teed
Canton 4
e: claire@castelparish.com
Karen Jagger
Canton 4
e: karen@castelparish.com
Angie Gibson
Canton 5
e: angie@castelparish.com
Bob Falla
Canton 5
e: bob@castelparish.com
Andrew Benstead
Canton 6
e: andrew@castelparish.com
Mark Dorey
Canton 6
e: mark@castelparish.com
ELECTIONS
Any parishioner seeking election to the douzaine would need to be proposed and seconded by parishioners on the electoral roll.
Elections are held in November.
Map of the Cantons
Your Douzeniers are divided up to cover all areas of the parish called Cantons.
See map of the Cantons
