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Local Government Boundary Commission for England Report No Local Government Boundary Commission For England Report No. 4-7 7 Review of Electoral Arrangements County of North Yorkshire .Local'Government Boundary Commission for England 20 Albert Ejiibahkment l ^r i E^BK _^^ i * i ' v * ^-^rTT - •^•••'•' •'' "v^ »'' lJQnd6n SE1 TTJ-' ;v A ." M!:^!*^^ ;' •;,' :-v/!'" T«hp»i6nS'pWpk un» ;oi-: S (JOBTB YOHESfiiBfi! .tJOTmTY BLECTORALVH CWHRlGENDtlM TO REPORT NO. 477 Schedule. 1; " proposed electoral divisions in Ryedale district "Haxby/Wigpingtori" should read "H Schedule 2; description of proposed electoral divisions Page 6, Harrogate Borough" Ripon East EJ) "The Harrogate Borough IVard of Rlppnn East" should read "The Harrogate Borough Ward of Rlpon liiaet" Page 8f Ryedale District Hovlngham/Sheriff The Hyedale District Ward of Button ED "Sherriff Ilutton" should read.. "Sheriff Hutton* Page 9f Ryedale District :- Kirkbymooraide ED The Rysdale Dintrict 7/ard of' "Kirbymooreide" should read "Kirk bymoor side'' Page 10, Borough c*f< Scarborough Castle ED Lines 4 to 6 of description, delete from "and" at the end of line 4 to "sidings" at the beginning of line 6; insert the following in place:- "to the point at which it meets Wykeham Street, thence northwestwards in a straight line from said point to and continuing northwestwards along the northeastern boundary of the Dismantled Railway " "D 6c C. DOC MATTHEWS 3° August 1984 LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION fc'OH ENGLAND KEl-OHT NO 477 UM:A|. UOVEKNMfcNT BOIINOAJlt COMMISSION W)H UNtl CtUIUMAN Kr G J fclllerton CMi MWti L»djr Ackiior Mr T Brock bjmk DL Mr U P U&rrtaon Profe»Bor G u Cherry To the'' Rt Hon Leon Brittan QC MP Secretary of State for the Home Department i /'• i PROPOSALS FOR THE FUTURE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE COUNTY OF NORTH YORKSHIRE 1. The last Order under Section 51 °f the Local Government Act 1972 in relation to electoral arrangements for districts in the County of North Yorkshire was made on 18 October 1979- As required by section 63 and Schedule 9 of the Act we have now reviewed the electoral arrangements for that county, using the procedures we had set out in our Report No 6. 2. We informed the County Council of North Yorkshire in a consultation letter dated 22 November 1979 that we proposed to conduct the review and sent copies of the letter to the district councils, parish councils and parish meetings in the county, to the Members of Parliament representing the constituencies concerned, to the headquarters of the main political parties and to the editors both of local newspapers circulating in the county and of the local government press. Notices in the local press announced the start of the review and invited comments from members of the public and from interested bodies. Our letter invited the County Council to submit a scheme providing for the 9^ electoral divisions which the Council had requested in 1975* The review was held in abeyance for further local consultations and was restarted on 21 January 1981, following the County Council's preparation of a scheme which was placed on display at the offices of the eight district councils, 3. On 9 April 1981 the County Council submitted to us a draft scheme in which they suggested 100 electoral divisions for the county, each returning one member in accordance with section 6(2)(a) of the Act. We told the County Council we considered that, in light of earlier correspondence, insufficient account had been given of the reasons why they had proposed a council of this size; at the agreed council size of 9^ North Yorkshire would be getting a council larger than had been agreed for any non-metropolitan county having under a million electors (the nearest being Nottinghamshire with a council of 88 for ?25» 980 electors). We asked the County Council to reconsider the matter and if they still wished to press for 100 members to provide a full statement of the exceptional grounds on which their case was based. We said it would be of considerable assistance to us in assessing the issues to have an outline scheme for not more than 9^ members. The County Council justified their 100 member scheme on five counts, these being: - (a) the suggestion of a 9** member council had been made on the basis of a forecast of 1980 electorate made in 1975» whereas the Council were now being asked to produce arrangements that would serve them for (b) an acceptable case had been made by six of their eight districts for a larger allocation of councillors than that to which they were strictly entitled under a council size of 9^! (c) following on from the previous point the draft scheme achieved better compatibility and better preserved local ties; (d) the acceptability of a 100 member council throughout the county was shown by the County Council having received no representations or objections about the proposed size from any source. They claimed that were they to propose a reduced council size this would provoke considerable objections; (e) the vast size of the county meant special problems for their members in those areas which have no public transport. Maintaining that the 100 member draft scheme was the best that could be devised under the circumstances, the County Council expressed themselves unable to submit an alternative outline scheme which would comply with both the letter and the spirit of our rules for electoral reviews. We considered the County Council's reasons were not sufficiently strong to justify the exceptional treatment for the county that a 100 member scheme would entail.. We asked the Council, on 23 December 19&1, to prepare a draft scheme based upon a council of not more than 95 members. 5. North Yorkshire County Council stated in reply that they were "unable to accede" to the request for a smaller scheme and asked the Commission to formulate proposals as required by Statute. However they subsequently modified their views and, after an exchange of correspondence agreement was reached on the production of a new draft scheme for 96 members including an additional member for Selby. 6. On 5 July 19^3 the Counxy Council submitted to us a fresh draft scheme which we considered together with the views expressed by local interests. In doing so we again considered the question of what size of council would be most appropriate for the County, and after examining in detail the two draft schemes before us we again concluded that 9& members was the correct size. On 16 February 198*f we issued draft proposals incorporating the County Council's revised draft scheme for 96 electoral divisions. These we sent to all those who had received our consultation letter or commented on the County Council's draft scheme. Notices were inserted in the local press announcing that the draft proposals had been issued and could be inspected at the County Council's offices. 7- We received comments in response to our draft proposals from North Yorkshire County Council, four district councils, nine parish councils, three parish meetings, one political party organisation, three county councillors, one district councillor and two individuals. .A full list of those who wrote to us is given at Appendix 1 to this report. 8. The County Council welcomed our draft proposals. The other comments we received can be summarised as follows:- (a) Graven District r Embsay with Eastby Parish Council had no comments to make on our draft proposals but suggested that consultative procedures would be improved if copies of the draft proposals were to be made available at local offices of the Council. The Hartlington Parish Council, Skipton and Ripon Constituency Labour Party, one district councillor, and one private individual all criticised the rejection of an alternative set of electoral divisions for Ripon which the Skipton and Ripon Constituency Labour Party had submitted in response to North Yorkshire County Council's draft scheme. The opposite view was taken by one county councillor who wrote in support of our decision. (b) Hambleton District Brempton Parish Council regretted' that the draft proposals meant the disappearance of "Br^mpton" as an electoral division title and asked if the name of Northallerton East division might not be altered to include "Brompton", t (c) Harrogate Borough Harrogate Borough Council, Dacre Parish Council and High and Low Bishopside Parish Council suggested that our proposed Greenhow electoral division be renamed "Pateley Bridge" after the largest town in the division. Dacre Parish Council submitted that, if that name were not acceptable, "Pateley Bridge and Nidd Valley" might be an alternative. Killinghall Parish Council urged us to reconsider our decision not to alter the Killinghall and New Park divisions along the lines they had suggested at the time of the County Council's original draft scheme. (d) Richmondshire District The District Council expressed their disappointment that it had not been found possible to give them six-member representation, although they appreciated that no specific provision was made in the Local Government Act 1972 to take account of rural weighting. The District Council's own scheme for five electoral divisions had been adopted by the County Council for draft scheme purposes with the modification that their Middle Dales division had been renamed Richmondshire South. The District Council were unhappy with this name and wished to see a return to "Middle Dales". (e) Ryedale District The majority of comments on our draft proposals related to this district. Bransdale Parish Meeting, -rFadaoor Parish Meeting, Farndale East Parish Council, Gillamsor Parish Meeting, Kirkbymoorside Town Council, Pickering Town Council, two county councillors and one private individual all urged us to alter our proposals in order to better reflect the community ties in the area.
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