Hammersmith & Fulham Council

December 2019 Summary Report The full report and detailed maps: consultation.lgbce.org.uk www.lgbce.org.uk @LGBCE

Have your say: We are now consulting local people on a new pattern of wards for Hammersmith & Fulham. We have an open mind abou t our final reco mm endatio ns, a nd we wil l con sider every piec eof evidenc ewe receive from local groups and peo ple, regardless of whom it is from or whether it relates to the whole council area or just a part of it. Hammersmith & Fulham Council If you agree with our recommendations, please let us know. If you don’t think our recommendations are right Draft recommendations on the new electoral arrangements for Hammersmith & Fulham, we want to hear alternative proposals for a different pattern of wards.

We aim to propose a pattern of wards for Hammersmith & Fulham which delivers:

■ Electoral equality: each councillor represents a similar number of voters. ■ Community identity: reflects the identity and interests of local communities. ■ Effective and convenient local government: helping your council discharge its responsibilities effectively.

A good pattern of wards should: ■ Facilities: does your pattern of wards reflect where local people go for shops, medical ■ Provide good electoral equality, with each services, leisure facilities etc? councillor representing, as closely as possible, ■ Interests : what issues bind the community the same number of voters. together or separate it from other parts of your ■ Reflect community interests and identities and area? include evidence of community links. ■ Identifiable boundaries: are there natural or ■ Be based on strong, easily identifiable constructed features which make strong boundaries. boundaries for your proposals? ■ Help the council deliver effective and convenient local government. Effective local government:

Electoral equality: ■ Are any of the proposed wards too large or small to be represented effectively? ■ Does your proposal mean that councillors ■ Are the proposed names of the wards Who we are: Why Hammersmith & Fulham? would represent roughly the same number of appropriate? ■ The Local Government Boundary Commission for The Commission has a legal duty to carry out an voters as elsewhere in the council area? England is an independent body set up by Parliament. electoral review of each council in England ‘from time to Useful tips: ■ We are not part of government or any political party. time. Hammersmith & Fulham has not been reviewed Community identity: ■ We are accountable to Parliament through a since 1999. ■ Our website has a special consultation area committee of MPs chaired by the Speaker of the House ■ Therefore the Commission has decided that it should where you can explore the maps and draw your ■ Transport links: are there good links across of Commons. review Hammersmith & Fulham in advance of the own proposed boundaries. You can find it at your proposed ward? Is there any form of public ■ Our main role is to carry out electoral reviews of local elections in 2022. consultation.lgbce.org.uk . transport? authorities throughout England. ■ Community groups : is there a parish council, ■ We publish all submissions we receive on our Our proposals: residents association or another group that website. Go to: www.lgbce.org.uk ■ We propose that the council should have 50 represents the area? Electoral review: councillors in future, representing 6 three-councillor An electoral review examines and proposes new wards and 16 two-councillor wards across the council Write to: Our consultation area: electoral arrangements for a local authority, including: area. Review Officer (Hammersmith & consultation.lgbce.org.uk ■ The total number of councillors representing the Fulham) Email: council’s voters (‘council size’). LGBCE [email protected] ■ The names, number and boundaries of wards or You have until 2 March 2020 to have Twitter: electoral divisions. 1st Floor, Windsor House your say on the rec ommendations 50 Victoria Street, London @LGBCE ■ The number of councillors for each ward or division. SW1H 0TL Summary of our recommendations Overview of draft recommendations for Our draft recommendations propose that Hammersmith & Fulham Council should have 50 councillors. Hammersmith & Fulham View this map online and draw your own boundaries: Key: Those councillors should represent 6 three-councillor consultation.lgbce.org.uk and 16 two-councillor wards across the council area. 1. Addison Follow the review on Twitter: @LGBCE 2. Avonmore An outline of the proposals is shown in the map to the 3. Brook Green right. A detailed report on the recommendations and If you are viewing this page online, click on the map to go interactive mapping is available on our website at: straight to our interactive consultation area. 4. College Park & Old Oak www.lgbce.org.uk . 5. Coningham We welcome comments on our draft 6. Fulham Reach recommendations, whether you support the proposals 7. Fulham Town or wish to put forward alternative arrangements. 8. Grove In particular, we welcome proposals for 9. Hammersmith Broadway alternative boundaries or ward names which meet the 10. Hurlingham criteria we must follow as part of electoral reviews and which are described in more detail over the page. 11. Lillie 12. Margravine 13. Munster Have your say at 14. Parsons Green & Sandford : consultation.lgbce.org.uk 15. Ravenscourt ■ view the map of our recommendations down to 16. Sands End street level. 17. Shepherd's Bush Green ■ draw your own boundaries online. ■ zoom into the areas that interest you most. 18. Walham Green ■ find more guidance on how to have your say. 19. Wendell Park ■ read the full report of our recommendations. ■ send us your views directly. 20. West Kensington 21. White City 22. Wormholt

Stage of Description review

4 June 2019 - Public consultation on warding 12 August 2019 arrangements

17 December 2019 - Public consultation on draft 2 March 2020 recommendations

Publication of final 2 June 2020 recommendations