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Tendring District Council is due to consider final recommendations from its Community Governance Review at tonight’s Full Council meeting. The review has examined whether new parish or town councils should be created for Clacton, Holland and Jaywick, which currently do not have their own parish-level councils.
The council ran a second consultation from December 2025 to February 2026, after an earlier phase of consultation and scrutiny committee consideration. The authority said the final recommendations had taken account of responses received across the two consultation phases.
Community Governance Reviews allow councils to consider local governance structures, including whether new parish councils should be established or existing arrangements changed. If approved, the recommendations could lead to a significant change in local representation for the three communities.