Local Resident's Submissions to the Chichester District Council Electoral
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Local resident’s submissions to the Chichester District Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from local residents. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Mayers, Mishka From: Alastair Alexander Sent: 05 October 2016 11:25 To: reviews Subject: Review of Chichester Wards Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged This is to advise that I believe the proposed Ward to include Bosham, Appledram, Fishbourne and Donnington is not a good combination of communities. Donnington does not have the same community issues as the others. In any case calling it Bosham and Donnington is a complete nonsense. I am in favour of it being called (if it must include these communities) the Harbour Villages Ward. Alastair Alexander Roman Landing 69 Fishbourne Road West CHICHESTER PO19 3JJ 1 Kingsley, Paul From: reviews Sent: 27 September 2016 10:30 To: Kingsley, Paul Subject: FW: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling From: Fredericka Arrowsmith Sent: 26 September 2016 10:44 To: Subject: Re: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling Dear Sir/Madame, I, too, also would like to express my wish for our Paris – Elsted, Treyford and Didling to remain in the Harting ward, as per the email below, citing the same reasons as Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith. I hope that you will not change the boundary at present which serves and suits our community very well, Yours faithfully, Fredericka Arrowsmith From: Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith Sent: 26 September 2016 10:30 To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling Dear Sir/Madame I would like to express my wish for our Parish – Elsted, Treyford and Didling to remain in the Harting ward. At present we sit comfortably within this boundary, being well served and represented by the rural ward of Harting. Midhurst is an urban ward which will naturally have different concerns and needs to ours, I believe our interests would become subordinate to those of the town dwellers and therefore we would be less well served by a change of boundary. The school at Harting was enlarged to take the children of Elsted, Treyford and Didling and as a village is a natural destination with a thriving village shop and post office that serves local needs. When people of our parish need to shop it is mainly to Petersfield which guarantees better choice of provisions and parking. We also share the same church ward which further cements our villages sense of community and natural allegiance. I, therefore, sincerely hope that you will not change the present boundary of our ward. 1 Yours faithfully Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith 2 Kingsley, Paul From: reviews Sent: 27 September 2016 10:31 To: Kingsley, Paul Subject: FW: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling From: Joe Arrowsmith Sent: 26 September 2016 10:48 To: Subject: Re: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling Dear Email Recipient, Please don't move our parish of Treyford, Elsted cum Didling to become part of Midhurst. South Harting do well by us. Thank you Joseph Arrowsmith Sent from my iPhone On 26 Sep 2016, at 10:43, Fredericka Arrowsmith wrote: Dear Sir/Madame, I, too, also would like to express my wish for our Paris – Elsted, Treyford and Didling to remain in the Harting ward, as per the email below, citing the same reasons as Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith. I hope that you will not change the boundary at present which serves and suits our community very well, Yours faithfully, Fredericka Arrowsmith 1 From: Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith Sent: 26 September 2016 10:30 To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling Dear Sir/Madame I would like to express my wish for our Parish – Elsted, Treyford and Didling to remain in the Harting ward. At present we sit comfortably within this boundary, being well served and represented by the rural ward of Harting. Midhurst is an urban ward which will naturally have different concerns and needs to ours, I believe our interests would become subordinate to those of the town dwellers and therefore we would be less well served by a change of boundary. The school at Harting was enlarged to take the children of Elsted, Treyford and Didling and as a village is a natural destination with a thriving village shop and post office that serves local needs. When people of our parish need to shop it is mainly to Petersfield which guarantees better choice of provisions and parking. We also share the same church ward which further cements our villages sense of community and natural allegiance. I, therefore, sincerely hope that you will not change the present boundary of our ward. Yours faithfully Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith 2 Kingsley, Paul From: reviews Sent: 27 September 2016 10:30 To: Kingsley, Paul Subject: FW: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling From: Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith Sent: 26 September 2016 10:30 To: reviews <[email protected]> Cc: Subject: Boundaries Elsted, Treyford and DIdling Dear Sir/Madame I would like to express my wish for our Parish – Elsted, Treyford and Didling to remain in the Harting ward. At present we sit comfortably within this boundary, being well served and represented by the rural ward of Harting. Midhurst is an urban ward which will naturally have different concerns and needs to ours, I believe our interests would become subordinate to those of the town dwellers and therefore we would be less well served by a change of boundary. The school at Harting was enlarged to take the children of Elsted, Treyford and Didling and as a village is a natural destination with a thriving village shop and post office that serves local needs. When people of our parish need to shop it is mainly to Petersfield which guarantees better choice of provisions and parking. We also share the same church ward which further cements our villages sense of community and natural allegiance. I, therefore, sincerely hope that you will not change the present boundary of our ward. Yours faithfully Marie‐Claire Arrowsmith 1 8/23/2016 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Chichester District Personal Details: Name: Roger Bannister Email: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: I realise that our local representatives work very hard but in these days of financial constraint any scheme that saves money, providing that services are not compromised, is to be welcomed. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informedrepresentation/8692 1/1 Mayers, Mishka From: NICHOLAS SHRUBB Sent: 28 September 2016 08:31 To: reviews Subject: Proposed changes to Fishbourne Village Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear Sirs I have been a resident of Fishbourne Village since 1983 and have seen a number of changes during that time. Many of them have been positive but I am of the opinion that the proposed changes to amalgamate the villages of Fishbourne, Bosham, Donnington & Apuldram into one ward is not. I wish to raise an objection on 2 grounds. Firstly it is in contrast to our Neighbourhood plan and secondly I am fearful that the new ward may create a concept to others, particularly Developers and the Local Authority, that we are one planning unit. In recent years all four villages have had more than their share of housing development and it is very costly and time consuming to continually be fighting to hold on to the feeling of being one village community and preserving our agricultural land for future generations. Yours faithfully Marion Coombes-Shrubb (Mrs) 1 Mayers, Mishka From: Hand Sent: 02 October 2016 13:02 To: reviews Subject: Recommendations for Changes in Chichester District Council Wards Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear Review Officer (Chichester), I am writing to express my concern at the proposed new ward which will encompass Bosham, Fishbourne, Appledram and Donnington with three District Councillors, and I note your main considerations for an electoral review. Firstly having three councillors for a combined ward of four parishes seems less likely to be capable of "effective and convenient local government". One councillor responsible for a particular area would be more effective than three whose responsibilities are spread across the whole area, however they might be apportioned, presumably at the whim of the individuals concerned. Secondly, the proposed new ward currently entitled Bosham - Donnington does not reflect the actual area. By omitting Fishbourne and Appledram these parishes become of less noticeable importance to Bosham and Donnington. I recognise that Bosham and Donnington are probably named as the east and west extremes of the area but in people's mind they will become the dominant partners with the risk that Fishbourne and Appledram's interests will be under represented, whatever might be said or written down. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly in the current climate of pressure to build houses wherever land can be bought, developers and planners are likely to perceive the whole new ward as one planning unit with detrimental effects on the availability of local facilities transport etc currently focused on the established settlement pattern. What is needed therefore in the name is something that preserves rather than obliterates the identities of the four individual villages and not one that focusses on just two of them. The name suggested by Fishbourne Parish Council of "Harbour Villages Ward" seems to describe the ward accurately and avoids the danger of the area beng perceived as one entity. Finally, a small historical note - Fishbourne suffered for years from being split between Bosham and Chichester at parish level, and after a long struggle achieved first a neighbourhood council and then a parish council in its own right. This was in the 1980s after which time it has been able to develop many community facilities and a community identity.