Being the lowest tier of local government, parish councils offer a local and accessible form of institutionalised democracy, playing a vital role in the United Kingdom's democratic system. We worked with various parish councils in southeast England to understand their deliberative processes. Using participatory design principles, we created toolkits to engage with council members and public members. The toolkits allowed the participants to reflect on the deliberative process and thus guided us in formulating our design outcomes. These outcomes include a series of spatial layouts called Pattern Language and a digital voting system called the Oracle.