“As chairman of the Birchington Parish Council may I warmly welcome you to our Parish Council website.
As an open and transparent public body, the Parish Council are pleased to make available a vast collection of information through this site available to view by members of the public. This includes contact details for the Parish Councillors; District and County Councillors; Parish Clerk and Deputy Clerk; the Birchington and Westgate-on-Sea Ward Police Officer, and the Birchington Community Warden. You can also view Agendas for Parish Council meetings, Minutes of meetings and the Financial Accounts. Detailed background information on the Neighbourhood Plan plus the latest updates, including the Referendum on 26 October 2023, can also be viewed on here. The monthly Parish Council magazine is uploaded on to this site and previous editions of the magazine can be viewed. Also on this site is the Birchington Active Leisure Directory which contains information and contact details for the numerous clubs, societies, sports, leisure activities and venues in and around Birchington. The latest news items relevant to Birchington will also be posted on here including forthcoming Parish Council meetings, events, road closures affecting Birchington, and public information notices from Thanet District Council and Kent County Council.
If you are a resident, a local trader, representative of a club or organisation and wish to post something on this site, or our Facebook page or would like to have an article published in our magazine then please contact the Parish Clerk in the first instance by telephone: 01843 846666 or email clerk@birchington-pc.gov.uk
Nick Blankley, Chairman of Birchington Parish Council
A SHORT HISTORY OF BIRCHINGTON PARISH COUNCIL
Birchington Parish Council was first established under the Local Government Act of 1897. Nine members were elected with each responsible for a specific area of council responsibility. The Councillors included Birchington’s second Vicar, The Reverend J. Kirkham Fox and the ladies’ cycle manufacturer, George Cousins. In 1899 Mr R.R. Edwards was appointed the first Secretary with an annual stipend of £10. The Council continued until 1935 when it was subsumed into the newly established Margate Borough Council. This too disappeared in 1974 and became part of Thanet District Council with the Birchington Parish Council, as we know it, being re-established on April 1st 1986 under the Chairmanship of Mr Dan Bentley.