The procedure for claiming a new parish council is laid out in the 2007 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act.

The first step is to decide the parish boundaries and name. For a village the size of Kings Clipstone a petition signed by at least 50% of the registered electors has to be presented to the District Council. This triggers a Parish Review. During this residents affected must be consulted along with and other councils. A decision must be reached within a year.

After widespread informal consultations with a large number of villagers a newsletter was delivered to evry home explaining what was happening and including an invitation to join a steering group.

The Steering Group members are

Connie Bottle, Martin Bradley, Connie Bottell, Bob Davies, Cate Hunt, Steve Parkhouse, John & Dianne Ross and John Severn.

These eight have been joined by Sarah Cooling.

Most people felt that Kings Clipstone was the best option for the name with the title of the new council being

               Kings Clipstone Village Council

The map shows the proposed new parishes. The Clipstone Parish contains all the urban area plus any land likely to be developed in the next 20 years. The Kings Clipstone Parish contains the rural area with the village and hamlets. Existing clearly visible boundaries such as the Bilsthorpe rail line and Clipstone Drive have been used to define its area.   

Newark & Sherwood Council were asked to approve the map and motion on the petiton. With few house numbers the register of electors is inevitably fairly disorganised.  To allow for this it was necessary to print the names and electoral numbers on the forms to enable the Council to check the petitioners against the electoral register. This caused some objections from a few residents who didn't realise that the register was available for any genuine democratic purpose.