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Ashburton Town Council is made up of 12 Councillors who stand for re-election every 4 years, this includes voting in a new Town Mayor and Deputy Town Mayor. All Councillors are voted in by the people of Ashburton. It should also be noted that a Town Councillor is a voluntary position. No Town Councillor receives payment for attending any of the Ashburton Town Council meetings.


The Town Council meetings are split up into four different committees, General purpose, Finance and Town Hall, Planning and The Information Centre. You can view the Minutes and Agendas available to download for any of these committees by visiting the 'Council Minutes' section of this site.

All Town council meeting minutes and agendas are 'public access' this means that any person at any time can request to see them. For your convenience we have supplied the last 6 months worth of these minutes and agendas for download. If you require to view documents from meetings before this date then you can contact the Town Hall directly to arrange this.



 Your Councillors
Ashburton Town Council is made up of twelve councillors, including a Mayor and Deputy Mayor (Councillor Michael Posner and Andrew Prince pictured). The role of the Councillors is to look after the day to day running of the town which means a lot of time attending committee meetings, the details of which committee each councillor serves on is listed below and contact Emails for each can also be found. The contents of every meeting are documented and available for download from the 'Council Minutes' section of this site.


Councillor M Posner - Town Mayor

Committees: Planning, Finance and Town Hall Building, General Purpose
Other Organisations: 6 a side Courts' meeting, Chamber of Trade and Commerce, Ashburton/Cleder Association
Contact: mposner@ashburton.org
Councillor A Prince - Deputy Mayor

Committees: Planning, Finance and Town Hall Building
Other Organisations: Police Consultative Group, Ashburton Community & Development Trust, 6 a side Courts' meeting, Planning (Deputy Chairman) to committees and Bank Youth Project
Contact: aprince@ashburton.org
Councillor W Gill

Committees: General Purpose (Chairman), Information Centre
Other Organisations: TALC, Cancer Research Campaign, Ashburton Chamber of Trade
Contact: wgill@ashburton.org
Councillor A Hitchcock

Committees: Finance and Town Hall Building
Other Organisations: DAPC, 6 a Side Courts meeting, South Dartmoor Residents Forum
Contact: ahitchcock@ashburton.org
Councillor B Miller

Committees: Information Centre (Chairman), General Purpose, Finance and Town Hall Building, Planning
Other Organisations: 6 a side Courts' meeting
Contact: bmiller@ashburton.org
Councillor J Richards

Committees: Finance and Town Hall Building (Chairman), General Purpose
Other Organisations: Chamber of Trade and Commerce
Contact: jrichards@ashburton.org
Councillor T Pugh

Committees: Planning (Chairman), General Purpose, Information Centre
Other Organisations: Relief in Need, Carnival Committee
Contact: tpugh@ashburton.org
Councillor P Parker (District Councillor)

Committees: Finance & Town hall Buildings
Other Organisations: TBC
Contact: Pparker@ashburton.org
Councillor P Brewer

Committees: General Purposes, Finance and Town Hall Buildings
Other Organisations: Ashburton Festival, Bank Youth Project Management
Contact: pbrewer@ashburton.org
Councillor E Baker

Committees: Planning, General Purposes
Other Organisations: Ashburton Festival
Contact: ebaker@ashburton.org
Councillor Councillor T Slater

Committees: Planning, General Purposes
Other Organisations:
Contact: slater@ashburton.com
Councillor Councillor D Distin

Committees: Planning, General Purposes
Other Organisations:
Contact: ddistin@ashburton.org
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