Councillors

Council Members

The Parish Council has six seats, five seats representing Staveley and one seat representing Copgrove. The current Council was formed in May 2022 and will serve a four year term. All seats become vacant at the end of the term. The Council currently comprises:

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Member Details

Membership details for all Parish Councils in North Yorkshire are available from the North Yorkshire Council website here .

Councillors’ Conduct and Interests

There are seven Nolan principles that apply to the conduct of people in public life. They are:

No.	Principle
1	Selflessness: you should act in the public interest
2	Integrity: you should not put yourself under any obligations to others, allow them improperly to influence you or seek benefit for yourself, family, friends or close associates
3	Objectivity: you should act impartially, fairly and on merit
4	Accountability: you should be prepared to submit to public scrutiny necessary to ensure accountability
5	Openness: you should be open and transparent in your actions and decisions unless there are clear and lawful reasons for non-disclosure
6	Honesty: you should always be truthful
7	Leadership: as a councillor, you should promote, support and exhibit high standards of conduct and be willing to challenge poor behaviour.

These principles are incorporated into the Code of Conduct that applies to all Staveley & Copgrove Councillors. Further information about the role of a Parish Councillor is available from the Local Government Association here .

Councillor Criteria

To be able to stand as a candidate at a parish council election in England you must:

Criteria
be at least 18 years old
be a British citizen, an eligible Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of any member state of the European Union, and meet at least one of the following four qualifications:
a. You are, and will continue to be, registered as a local government elector for the parish/community in which you wish to stand from the day of your nomination onwards,
b. You have occupied as owner or tenant any land or other premises in the parish/community area during the whole of the 12 months before the day of your nomination and the day of election,
c. Your main or only place of work during the 12 months prior to the day of your nomination and the day of election has been in the parish/community area,
d. You have lived in the parish/community area or within three miles of it during the whole of the 12 months before the day of your nomination and the day of election.

The table below lists some of the people who have served on the Parish Council in recent years.

Councillor	Stood Down
Gary Curnow	July 2024
Robert Brown	April 2022
Helen North	April 2022
William Kirkpatrick	August 2021
Nicolas Stringer	February 2020
Derek Kenningham	November 2019
Neil Horton	June 2019
Claire Dennis	April 2019
Kevin Atkinson	April 2018
David Child	April 2018
Richard Tesseyman	April 2018
Lynne Manby	February 2016
Em Lloyd-Davies	April 2013
Ian Griffin	April 2012
Michael North	April 2012
Paul Smith	April 2012