Parish Meetings are NOT meetings of the Parish Council and are not organised by the Council, to avoid confusion with the statutorily defined Annual Meeting of the Parish Council, the annual Parish Meeting is referred to as the Annual Assembly of the Parish Meeting (AAPM).
The legislation around Parish Meetings is provided by the Local Government Act 1972:
s14 (1) requires that a parish meeting of the parish shall assemble annually on some day between 1st March and 1st June, and at a date fixed by the Parish Council, but there are options as to who convenes it.
s15(1) gives 3 options for who can call the AAPM:
A parish meeting may be convened by—
(a) the chairman of the parish council, or
(b) any two parish councillors for the parish, or
(c) where there is no parish council, the chairman of the parish meeting or any person representing the parish on the district council, or
(d) any six local government electors for the parish.
Legislation requires that the AAPM must be held in person and cannot take place remotely e.g. by zoom.
In the light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and social contact restrictions, the Chairman of the Parish Council has determined not to call a meeting. Councillors have been asked whether any two intend to call the AAPM, and they have all indicated that they do not.
The option remains for six electors to call the meeting. If six electors wish to call the meeting (and set the agenda), they should contact the Clerk to fix a date as soon as possible as the meeting must take place by 1st June.