Parish Council elections

This May all nine seats on Rusthall Parish Council are up for election.  the Council was formed in 2011.  Since the first election all the councillors have been either elected unopposed or co-opted.  So much for the claims by the protagonists for the parish council to be formed that it would lead to an increase in democratic participation.  Instead the electorate has been lumbered with paying for a clerk, offices, website and other expenses and for what?  Answers on a postage stamp.