Have you got what it takes to be a Town Councillor? there’s a vacancy in Connah’s Quay

The Deeside.com Twitter timeline is alive most days with people saying they can do a better job than our current elected town council members.

So, here’s your chance to prove it!

There is a vacancy at Connah’s Quay Town Council following the recent resignation of a Councillor in the Wepre Ward.

Now here’s the thing, there will only be a by-election if TEN electors from the ward write to the returning officer asking for an election.

If the returning officer does not receive ten written requests from elector’s in the Wepre Ward, within fourteen days, thats fourteen days from the 5th of September, not including Saturdays and Sundays, (we make that the 25th September you may want to check though!) then the council will CO -OPT a suitable person to the vacant seat, basically choose someone who ‘fits the bill’.

Anybody interested in becoming a town councillor must be a British, Commonwealth, Irish or European citizen and be 18 years of age or over and must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Registered as a local government elector for the area named above; or
• During the whole of the last 12 months occupied as owner or tenant, land or other premises in the community named above; or
• Your principal or only place of work during the last 12 months has been in the community named above; or
• You have during the whole of the last 12 months resided in the Community or within 4.8 kilometres of it.

For more information contact the Elections Office on 01352 702329 for further information regarding the vacancy.

The address of the Returning Officer is;