For parish & town councils
Your council website, built in a day.
Fully accessible, fixed price, and owned by the council outright. No platform, no monthly fees, nothing to cancel. Live before your next meeting.
This is the first year Assertion 10 puts your website in front of your internal auditor. A compliant site is the simple way to a clean answer.
Real councils, real sites
Sites I've already built, have a look
Each of these is a complete, working council website, built in a day to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard. Open any of them on your phone or keyboard-only. They are real, not mock-ups.
Each is a genuine preview built from the council's public information, marked clearly as a demonstration. The finished site is the council's own, on the council's own domain.
The scope, in plain terms
What the build covers
Accessibility that holds up
Keyboard-navigable, screen-reader tested, contrast checked against WCAG 2.2 AA, with an accessibility statement written to match. It supports your AGAR Assertion 10 answer instead of quietly undermining it.
Meetings and documents
Agendas, minutes, finance and transparency papers published as accessible files, in a library your clerk adds to without needing me.
The council owns it
The domain, the site and every file belong to the council. Nothing to be locked into, no subscription that holds the site hostage if you stop paying.
Live in a day
Built and put online in one working day, booked in after your council resolves to go ahead. No three-month project queue.
Works on the clerk's old PC and every phone
No JavaScript to break, HTTPS throughout, still readable zoomed to 300%. It loads on the council office machine and on a resident's phone in the car park.
One price, hosting included
£650 to £850 by size, first year's hosting in the price. No hourly billing, no change requests turning into invoices.
Built for how councils actually decide
Five simple steps, no risk to the council
I know a council can't just click "buy". Everything is shaped around your meeting cycle and standing orders.
A free check, straight away
Paste your website address into the free checker and see common accessibility problems in ten seconds. Ask me and I'll follow it with a full manual review, useful to you whether or not you go further.
A preview of your own site
I build a working preview of your council's new site from public information, so councillors judge something real, not a sales pitch.
A one-page proposal to table
You get a single page with draft minute wording, a ten-minute agenda item. At £650–£850 it sits inside most councils' quotation thresholds.
Build day
After the council resolves, the site is built and goes live the same working day on the council's own domain.
Invoice after delivery
You're invoiced only once the site is live and the council has approved it. The council never pays for a promise.
The difference that matters
Owned, not rented
When 2commune closed, around 400 councils had to re-procure their websites from scratch. Ownership is not a detail.
A platform subscription
- You rent the site, stop paying and it disappears
- Template you build and maintain yourself
- £15–£36 a month, plus VAT, forever
- Accessibility often only "partially" met
- Your data lives on someone else's system
A site Greg builds
- The council owns the domain, site and files outright
- Built for you, done, in one day
- One payment, roughly £30/year hosting after year one
- Full WCAG 2.2 AA, statement written for you
- Move it anywhere, any time, no lock-in
Simple pricing
One price, agreed before we start
Fixed price, from
£650 – £850
Depending on the size of the council. First year's hosting, the domain set-up and your accessibility statement are all included.
Questions clerks ask
The honest answers
We already use a platform, why change?
If it's genuinely working, I won't talk you out of it. But platform sites are rented: if the supplier changes terms or closes, the council starts again. And most platform templates can't reach full WCAG 2.2 AA, which is why so many councils' own accessibility statements list "known issues" year after year. Mine is one payment, fully compliant, and owned outright.
Is a website actually a legal requirement?
A website itself isn't compulsory, and I won't pretend otherwise. But if you publish online, an accessibility statement has been required since 2020, and this year's AGAR Assertion 10 asks the council to stand behind its digital arrangements, council-owned domain and email, and an accessible website. This makes that answer an easy "yes".
How can it really be done in a day?
Because the scope is fixed and I prepare your content in advance from public sources. On build day the site is assembled, checked for accessibility, and deployed to your domain. Bigger jobs, deep document archives, extra features, are quoted separately so the core promise stays true.
We can't decide without a meeting.
Exactly as it should be. I give you a one-page proposal with draft minute wording so it's a quick agenda item, hold the price until the meeting after next, and keep your preview live until you've decided. Tabling it costs the council nothing.
Who are you?
An independent website builder, not an agency or a platform. The best proof is real work: I have complete council sites you can open right now, each built in one day to this standard. Try one on your phone, or keyboard-only. And because I invoice only after delivery, you're never paying for a promise.
Start with a free site check
Paste your council's website address into the checker and see what it finds in ten seconds. No sign-up, no obligation, and it's useful to you either way.