A turnkey solution for the digital presence of local authorities, featuring an institutional website and integrated management backoffice. No dependency on external platforms or licensing subscriptions.
The Parish Council Portal is a ready-to-use solution for the online presence of local government bodies. It brings together, in a single system, a citizen-facing institutional website and a management backoffice that allows your team to administer all content independently — no technical knowledge required, no reliance on third parties for every update.
This parish council website solution combines citizen communication and digital service delivery in one platform, designed to be straightforward to maintain day to day.
On the public side, the platform features a responsive homepage organised into sections that each organisation can activate and configure according to its needs:
The most important news items can be highlighted in a popup on the site's entry page, ensuring that critical notices reach every visitor.
More than an informational website, the platform puts real services at citizens' fingertips. The Virtual Counter allows residents to request certificates and official documents entirely online, while the incident reporting channel gives citizens a direct way to flag issues in the local area.
In both cases, the citizen receives a tracking code and can check the status of their request at any time — reducing in-person visits, phone calls and administrative workload.
All content is managed through a well-organised backoffice. Publishing a news article, updating the executive board's composition, adding a document, managing the gallery or responding to a document request are all tasks any staff member can handle, with no specialised training needed.
General site settings — contact details, institutional copy and opening hours — are equally centralised and editable in one place.
Built on PHP and MySQL — widely supported technologies — the platform is designed to run on standard web hosting with cPanel, with no recurring licensing costs or complex infrastructure.
Security has been handled with care, including CSRF attack protection, anti-spam filters on public forms, robust session management and automated backup routines. The database uses a versioned schema with incremental updates, keeping future upgrades controlled and risk-free for production data.
If you want ongoing platform maintenance over time, our web support service provides continuous technical assistance.
The result is a practical, long-lasting platform that brings the organisation closer to its citizens and simplifies the work of those who manage it. It is fully customisable to each entity's visual identity and comes with documentation for installation and use.
PHP 8.0 or higher
Extensions: pdo_mysql, mbstring, fileinfo and gd (or imagick).
MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+, with utf8mb4 charset
Apache, Nginx or equivalent.
